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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- provides data, graphs and maps on a variety of environmental issues.  A menu of data sources is available at http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=293 . The main country level data base is the GEO data portal which has time-series data on more than 400 indicators. This data base will provide data as downloadable files in a number of formats including .csv and .xml. The downloads include both the ISO 2 and 3 character country codes for easy linking to other data bases.  The GEO Data Portal is available at http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/ .

United Nations -- Data on the environment indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals is available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp .

World Bank -- The World Bank provides environment data in time series on its subscription data base  World Development Indicators data base. You can get the data for the latest year for a single country from links on http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html .

World Resources Institute -- The WRI provides online data in EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal". WRI provides a searchable time-series database with coverage of more than 500 indicators for 220 countries. Topics include Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems; Climate and Atmosphere; Population, Health and Human Well-being; Economics, Business and the Environment; Energy and Resources; Biodiversity and Protected Areas; Agriculture and Food; and Forests and Drylands.  The searchable database permits searching for a single indicator but over a full range of countries and years. The result can be downloaded into csv format. The system also provides data tables and country profiles in pdf format, maps and feature stories. The database is available at http://earthtrends.wri.org/ . The data is also available in a CDROM for $US 125 . Information on the CDROM is available at http://www.wristore.com/woredacd20.html . WRI also produces the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT). CAIT is an information and analysis tool on global climate change. CAIT provides a data base of greenhouse gas emissions data and other climate relevant indicators. Country level data is available with some time series starting in 1850. CAIT runs in Excel through the use of macros. It requires Excel 2000 or a more recent version. The software must be downloaded and installed and is available from http://cait.wri.org . The software is free but you have to register before downloading.