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Arctic Climate Change

"At the occasion of the launch of the International Polar Year today I would like to draw your attention to this GreenFacts publication on Arctic Climate Change. It gives a quick but complete overview of the main findings of the Arctic Climate impact Assessment, an international project of the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee conducted by an international panel of 300 scientists."

Satu Hassi, MEP, Vice-Chair of the Commmitte on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (about the GreenFacts leaflet on Arctic Climate Change)

European Commission DG Environment

"Your summaries of important documents on environment and health perform a very useful service in making such information accessible to a wider public. Communicating the facts to the broadest possible audience is clearly vital for the success of our policy-making, and GreenFacts' performances an important role in this regard."

Mogens Peter Carl, Director General of the European Commission DG Environment

IUCN

"Where mutually beneficial I would like to see already existing cooperation between IUCN and GreenFacts deepened and broadened. We will certainly contact you should we have any publications that would benefit from your services, and we will certainly recommend your services to our extended networks."

Ibrahim Thiaw, Acting Director General of the IUCN

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

"The GreenFacts two-tiered condensation of the Biodiversity Synthesis from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is excellent and accurately captures all of the critical issues of this report. The international team that produced this report will be gratified to see it available in your innovative format that is targeted for a wide audience. GreenFacts has done its usual terrific job of conveying complex material in an easily accessible format to the larger community."

Harold A. Mooney, co-chair of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Panel

IAEA - Chernobyl Forum

Referring to GreenFacts summary of "Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts" by the Chernobyl Forum

"I was pleased to assist you in this work. I wish to compliment you in your good efforts to clarify issues about the environment."

Dr. Burton Bennett, Chairman of the Chernobyl Forum

FAO - Fisheries Department

"The GreenFacts Digest on Fisheries reflects, in an accessible language, the essential findings of the FAO report. I am convinced that it will help raise awareness about the issues faced by the fisheries and aquaculture sector and wish to warmly congratulate GreenFacts for this very useful initiative."

Dr. Serge Garcia, Director of the Fishery Resources Division at the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization).

Climate Change

"Operational NGOs e.g. GreenFacts (Brussels) [...] which provide specific capabilities and are not involved in advocacy should be used as much as possible where they can support the Outreach and Dissemination Program efficiently and effectively." [...]

"If IPCC was required to use a 3rd party to produce Fact Sheets, one notable specialist in the field, with recent experience supporting the UN Millennium Ecosystem Report, is the independent non-profit organisation, GreenFacts (Brussels)."

"Framework Communications Strategy for Release and Dissemination of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report", proposal by CNC (Communications & Network Consulting)

Millennium Assessment

Referring to GreenFacts' summary of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report

"We are pleased with this collaboration with GreenFacts. Their summaries bring the findings of our experts to the reach of a much wider audience."

Dr. Robert T. Watson, co-chair of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; source: Development Gateway

FAO - Agricultural and Development Economics Division

"The GreenFacts Digest on GMOs is an excellent summary of the scientific evidence reported in The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-04 . We at FAO are very pleased with our collaboration with GreenFacts and feel confident that their initiative will make a valuable contribution to the public debate on this controversial subject. Congratulations GreenFacts on a job well done."

Terri Raney, Senior Economist and Editor of "The State of Food and Agriculture" at the Food and Agricultural Organization's Agricultural and Development Economics Division.

United States' EPA

"Maintaining an accessible and easy-to-use Web site that quickly links users to different levels of information depending on their interests and skills. One example is the site maintained by the European group GreenFacts.org, which presents interlinked versions of complex reports (e.g. World Health Organization documents) at the executive summary, interpretive summary, and full report levels."

"Proceedings of the Endocrine Disruptors Program - Progress Review Workshop", by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

University of Aberdeen

Referring to GreenFacts' Respiratory Health Digest:

"I am pleased to see that the issues relevant to the respiratory health of children, and to the health of the coming generations of European adults may now reach a wider audience. The challenges ahead are considerable but the health gains are surely worth the effort."

Prof. Peter Helms, Department of Children Health, University of Aberdeen and co-chair of the subgroup "Respiratory Health" of the EU's Technical Working Group on priority diseases, which authored our source document.

Scottish EPA

"A useful model for relaying technical information to audiences with various levels of awareness of specific issues is that developed by the organisation 'GreenFacts' (www.greenfacts.org). GreenFacts provides an information and educational website on environmental issues, in which the information is presented in several layers, beginning with the most basic description of the issue where terminology is defined, and progressively including more technical information within each of the subsequent layers. We believe this format provides a valuable approach for information provision that acknowledges the different needs of stakeholders."

Dr. Campbell Gemmell, Chief Executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).