What challenges and opportunities are ahead for IISD?
As an organization with a policy solutions mandate, we face the ongoing challenges of encouraging change towards sustainable development in a world of flawed mechanisms and inconsistent signals and incentives. Some people believe that the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in 2002 in Johannesburg could mark the end of sustainable development summitry. As the urgency grows to address SD issues, we will need to work increasingly at a multilateral level. And, as the funding environment becomes more competitive, we will need to become increasingly innovative. Still, IISD is poised to make great advances. Our technological competence, our substantive expertise, our healthy relationships, our ability to adapt to change and our unwavering passion stand us in good stead to define and address the issues, and to continue to contribute positively to economic, social and environmental well-being around the world.
