Key Message
Making progress toward sustainable development demands that we get international decision-making right. IISD focuses on understanding what the right structures and mechanisms are for achieving optimal transparency, participation and accountability in our governance systems.
Governance for Sustainable Development
Finding a better way
The International Institute for Sustainable Development has long had an interest in governance as it relates to the achievement of sustainable development. From the institute's early days, our researchers, reporters and analysts have followed multilateral environmental agreements and other modes of national and international sustainable development decision-making.
As the need to improve the planet's condition intensifies, we have broadened our work and have learned a great deal about the flaws in current systems and opportunities for improvement.
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Global Environmental Governance
Given increasing evidence of environmental degradation, our system of global environmental governance needs reform urgently—not because it has failed, but because it has outgrown its original design. IISD has published and presented extensively on the subject. -
Internet Governance and Sustainable Development
Internet governance has been on the international agenda for a relatively short time and IISD is at the forefront in the effort to understand the points of convergence between Internet governance and sustainable development. -
Sustainable Development Strategies
IISD's work in understanding sustainable development strategy development includes a sharp focus on national-level strategies, including a discussion on the necessary governance structures. -
Transparency in International Environmental Decision-making
IISD's Reporting Services division provides access to credible and timely information regarding negotiations of multilateral environmental agreements that is accessible to the public as well as experts in the field.