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About IISD RS
IISD Reporting
Services Team
Funders
Products
History
Contact Information
About
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS)
The
International Institute for Sustainable Development –
Reporting Services Division – provides a variety of
multimedia informational resources for environment and
sustainable development policymakers, including daily
coverage of international negotiations, analyses and
photos. As the publisher of the Earth Negotiations
Bulletin, IISD RS
is recognized for its objectivity and issue expertise in
the field of international environment and sustainable
development policy. The various products provided by
IISD RS make it an essential source of information for
government officials, policy and decision makers, UN
staff, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental
organizations, business, industry and academia.
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IISD
Reporting Services Team
IISD RS has four permanent professional staff (http://www.iisd.ca/about/staff.htm),
several part-time clerical and administrative positions,
two full-time translators and sixty expert consultants
(http://www.iisd.ca/about/team/)
from thirty two countries. Most of the team members are
Ph.D. candidates, lawyers or Ph.D.s with experience in
international environment and development relations.
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Funders
IISD Reporting Services
is supported entirely by contributions
from readers and their organizations. For a list of our
donors and funders visit:
http://www.iisd.ca/enbvol/enb-funding.htm.
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Products
IISD
Reporting Services products include:
The
Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
The flagship product,
ENB,
is a balanced, timely and independent reporting
service that provides daily information from
multilateral negotiations on environment and
sustainable development.
The
Bulletin is a one-page, double-sided publication that is
distributed each day to participants at UN
negotiations. In addition to the hard-copy version,
the Earth Negotiations
Bulletin is available in electronic
format on the IISD
Reporting Services website “Linkages”
and distributed by e-mail.
At
the conclusion of each meeting, the
Earth Negotiations
Bulletin Team writes and edits a
10-18,000-word summary and analysis of the meeting,
which is circulated in electronic format. This has
enabled it to reach a wide range of people
interested in environment and sustainable
development negotiations. Many UN delegates, NGOs
and UN staff who track environment and sustainable
development policy consider the
Earth Negotiations Bulletin
to be essential reading. Meetings covered during
2006 include:
http://www.iisd.ca/meetings/2006.htm
Your Meeting Bulletin (YMB)
Your Meeting Bulletin
is the reporting service that expands the
coverage provided by the
Earth Negotiations Bulletin to other
meetings, such as conferences, workshops, symposia or
regional meetings. These initiatives are growing in
scope and number and are providing increasingly
important inputs into the policy-making process, and the
outcomes of these important initiatives should be
highlighted and made widely available to all interested
parties. Your Meeting Bulletin provides a timely,
professional, high-quality reporting service for these
events and disseminates the information extensively via
the Internet.
The IISD
Reporting Services website “LINKAGES”
The World Wide Web site
http://www.iisd.ca/
was created in 1994 as a multimedia resource for
environment and sustainable development decision-makers.
This site includes all of the digital versions of
the Earth Negotiations
Bulletin reports in a freely
accessible online archive.
In
addition, this site provides links to other relevant
sites and official documents, and includes high-resolution
digital photos from the meetings covered by IISD RS.
In the years that Linkages has been available on the
Internet, millions of visitors have downloaded
hundreds of gigabytes of information.
The website tracks information on the following
issue areas:
Sustainable Development
Biodiversity & Wildlife
Chemicals Management
Climate & Atmosphere
Forests, Deserts, Land
Human Development
Intergovernmental Organizations
Trade,
Financing & Investment for Sustainable Development
Water,
Wetlands, Oceans and Coasts
Linkages Update
is a newsletter published twice each month that
delivers the latest news and information on a broad
range of international environment and sustainable
development negotiations and issues to your e-mailbox.
Linkages Update
provides:
top
environmental news stories;
updates
on negotiations covered by the
Earth Negotiations Bulletin;
brief
summaries of key international environment and
sustainable
development meetings;
links
to noteworthy publications and online resources; and
a
comprehensive calendar of upcoming meetings.
Linkages Update
is our most widely distributed publication, reaching
an estimated audience of 45,000 readers in primary
and secondary distribution.
MEA Bulletin
provides the reader with updates and information
focused specifically on the activities of key
multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and
their secretariats. It provides details of new
reports, announcements, meetings, implementation
activities and other news. It was made possible with
support from UNEP's Division of Environmental
Conventions, and is prepared by a team of experts
who also work on
ENB and
Linkages Update. To access
the archives and sign up to receive future issues
visit:
http://www.iisd.ca/email/mea-l.htm
Using
the powerful Lyris list-processing software,
IISD Reporting Services provides several moderated e-mail based peer-to-peer
announcement lists on various issues. These lists allow
thousands of members of these virtual communities to
share information on upcoming meetings, recent
publications, updates to members’ websites, availability
of documentation for negotiations and news of
professional vacancies. IISD
Reporting Services maintains the following
free lists:
Biodiversity-L:
is a mailing list for news
and announcements related to Biodiversity and Wildlife
policy issues. Postings include biodiversity and
wildlife policy news, announcements of
workshops/conferences, job listings, and information on
new publications and online resources. Biodiv-L is
brought to you by
IISD, in
cooperation with the
Convention on
Biological Diversity Secretariat.
Chemicals-L:
In April 2005, together with UNEP Chemicals, IISD has
created this peer-to-peer list to server the
international chemicals management community. This list
is used for announcements related to the
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), the
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
(SAICM), the Stockholm Convention (POPS) and the
Rotterdam Convention (PIC).
Climate-L:
In
cooperation with the UNFCCC Secretariat, IISD moderates
and maintains the CLIMATE-L list linking all
sections of the international climate change community.
This announcement list, which was launched in 1996,
reaches an estimated 25,000 readers worldwide, providing
an electronic information dissemination tool for
hundreds of organizations, UN bodies and governments to
circulate information on their activities.
Forests-L:
This list, created in collaboration with the United
Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat, was
launched in May 2003. FORESTS-L links members of
the forest policy community in a common forum for the
exchange of information, announcements, best practices,
upcoming meetings and the availability of academic and
scientific research.
MEA-L:
is
a peer-to-peer listserve for information specifically
about multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
MEA-L also distributes the MEA Bulletin in PDF
format. The MEA Bulletin is a publication created
by the International Institute for Sustainable
Development (IISD),
in cooperation with the United Nations Environment
Programme’s Division of Environmental Conventions (UNEP
DEC).
Oceans-L:
is
a mailing list for news and announcements related to
oceans policy issues. Postings include oceans policy
news, announcements of workshops/conferences, job
listings, and information on new publications and online
resources. Oceans-L was created in January 2006 and is
brought to you by IISD Reporting Services in cooperation
with the
Global Forum on Oceans,
Coasts, and Islands and UNESCO.
Water-L:
IISD,
in collaboration with the World Water Council and the
Secretariat for the 3rd World Water Forum,
inaugurated WATER-L in February 2003. This list,
which now reaches an audience of approximately 10,000
readers, links members of the “water community” through
distributed e-mail announcements.
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History
The
Earth Negotiations Bulletin
began as the joint initiative of three individuals from
the NGO community, who were participating in the
preparations for the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development. Johannah Bernstein, an environmental lawyer
and Director of the Canadian Participatory Committee for
UNCED (CPCU), Pamela Chasek,
a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies, and Langston James Goree VI "Kimo", a former UNDP
programme officer and NGO activist from the Western
Amazon, created the Earth Summit Bulletin in
March 1992.
After
publishing daily issues during the five weeks of the
Fourth Preparatory Committee meeting for UNCED, the
three raised funds to publish at the Conference in Rio.
Following the conclusion of UNCED the International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) approached
the three founders with an offer to continue publishing
the Earth Summit Bulletin at follow-up
negotiations to the Earth Summit. In November 1992 the
Earth Summit Bulletin was renamed the Earth
Negotiations Bulletin.
More
than fourteen years later, IISD Reporting Services has
produced thousands of reports from hundreds of
negotiations covering dozens of major multilateral
environmental agreements. Its timely up-to-the-minute
reports and comprehensive online archives are widely
respected and relied upon by experts and officials from
around the world.
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Contact Information
International Institute for Sustainable
Development
Reporting Services Division
New York Office
300 East 56th Street #11D
New York, New York 10022
United States of America
Tel: +1 646 536 7556
Fax: +1 646 219 0955
E-mail:
enb@iisd.org
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