IISD's New York-based reporting services continued to produce a steady stream of information on international environment and sustainable development negotiations. The products of IISD Reporting Services include: the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB); Linkages Journal, the monthly roundup of meetings, recently repositioned as an e-mail product; and Sustainable Developments, a "for hire" service for conferences, symposia and workshops. IISD Reporting Services has always captured the formal proceedings and informal hallway banter that inform decision-making. IISD Linkages, a gateway to all Reporting Services activity, can be found at http://www.iisd.ca. A feature article about the ENB's tenth anniversary appears in this report.

Achievements and Highlights

• Reporting Services continued to provide the world's diplomatic and sustainable development policy communities with a great deal of high quality news and analysis from 35 multilateral negotiations, conferences, workshops and symposia.

• In addition, IISD was hired by clients to provide Sustainable Developments coverage of 24 other international meetings.

• In preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, IISD has launched a comprehensive Summit portal at http://www.iisd.ca/wssd
  /portal.html.

• Reporting Services expanded and diversified its funding base. Funders in 2001-2002 were:

Government Ministries and Agencies

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Sustaining Donor

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) - Sustaining Donor

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Sustaining Donor

Switzerland Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape - Sustaining Donor

United Kingdom Department for International Development - Sustaining Donor

The European Community (DG-XI) - Sustaining Donor

Denmark Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Sustaining Donor

German Ministry for Development Cooperation (BMZ) through GTZ and the German Ministry of Nature Management, Forests and Nuclear Safety (BMU) - Sustaining Donor

Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture

Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Environment

The Government of Australia

Norwegian Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Finland Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Environment Ministry of Japan (through the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies - IGES)

The Government of New Zealand

Resources Conservation Division, Forestry Department, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan (through Swan International)

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (for publishing in French)

Intergovernmental Organizations and Specialized Agencies of the United Nations

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

The Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity

The Secretariat for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The Ozone Secretariat of UNEP (for coverage of the Montreal Protocol MOP-12)

The UNEP Chemicals Unit (for coverage of the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention negotiations)

Private Foundations, Industry and Non-Governmental Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation

The Joyce Foundation

Long-term Vision

IISD Reporting Services intends to promote transparency in international environment and sustainable development policy-making by expanding the number and scope of the meetings covered while using the newest in information technologies.

From the Director of Reporting Services...

"It was 10 years ago this summer, immediately following the Earth Summit in Rio, when IISD asked us if the 'Earth Summit Bulletin' needed an institutional home. What started as the three of us (Pam Chasek, Johannah Bernstein and myself) sitting at the back of the negotiations armed with laptop computers, has become IISD's flagship product. I look back over this last decade with some pride in what we created: putting bright people, good ideas, an organization not afraid to embrace innovation and some creative fundraising together to produce something quite remarkable."

-Langston James Goree VI ("Kimo")