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to identify potential threats to the environment and raise public awareness regardingthose issues. Because they are not politically bound to national interests, independentorganizations are able to evaluate factors and dynamics from an unbiased perspective.Access to a wealth of scientific technology increases their ability to identify potentialproblems and lends credibility to their findings.In addition to working in the realm of policy-making, NGOs are able to worklocally and make immediate impacts in areas that are in dire need of help. Forexample, the international organization CARE has partnered with Ethos Water tofinance the construction of a water sanitation facility in the Kampene village of theDemocratic Republic of Congo. As organizations negotiate development strategieswith impoverished nations who desperately need assistance, it is questionablewhether the NGOs are acting on behalf of the countries' environmental concerns orthe interests of donor governments and corporations. The“hole in the ozonelayer”,for example, was not discovered in 1987 but invented through a series of clever NGOcampaigning using scientific information available in dense, technical reports for quitesome while. Recognizing their distinctive contribution in raising and generating newforms of ecological sensibility, a number of writers have argued that NGOs have aspecial role in moving societies towards sustainable development. NGOs are regardedas the keepers of the“conscience”of the emerging international moral communitywhilst governments are seen to be“always one lap behind”. 32NGOs have built upexpertise in the many of the scientific, economic and social and technical disciplinesrelevant to sustainable development. Research based institutions such as WorldResources Institute, Union of Concerned Scientists, Worldwatch Institute, TataEnergy Research Institute and FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental90832 ?Farhana Yamin,“NGOs and International Environmental Law: A Critical Evaluation of their Roles andResponsibilities”, Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, Volume 10(2), pp.149-162,July 2001