Centre for International Sustainable Development Law The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) aims to promote sustainable societies and the protection of ecosystems by advancing the understanding, development and implementation of international sustainable development law. The CISDL is an independent legal research centre that has a collaborative relationship with the McGill University Faculty of Law in engaging students and interested faculty members in sustainable development law research and scholarly initiatives. The CISDL has six legal research programmes led by jurists from developing and developed countries, and publishes books, articles, working papers and legal briefs in English, Spanish and French. Centre for International Sustainable Development Law Chancellor Day Hall 3644 Peel Street, Montreal (Quebec), H3A 1W9 Canada www.cisdl.org Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative at Yale University The Governance, Environment and Markets (GEM) Initiative at Yale University aims to reorient environmental governance research and practice from short term and single intervention approaches towards durable “results based” problem solving that embraces, rather than bypasses, multi-level complexity. GEM is based at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, one of the world’s leading hubs of research and teaching in environmental policy and governance. Under the leadership of Prof. Benjamin Cashore, a team of scholars and graduate students carry out GEM’s research and programmatic activities. In addition, GEM benefits from the collaboration of a global network of practitioners and scholars focused on fostering effective, multi-level environmental governance solutions. Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative at Yale 195 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 www.environment.yale.edu/gem Academics Stand against Poverty Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international professional association focused on helping poverty researchers and teachers enhance their positive impact on severe poverty. It does so by promoting collaboration among poverty-focused academics, effective outreach to policy makers and broader public audiences, and by helping academics turn their expertise into impact through specific intervention projects. ASAP has chapters in Austria, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Oceania, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with hundreds of members working and studying in universities, research centers and NGOs worldwide. ASAP’s activities are guided by a nine-member Board of Directors comprised of academics working in seven countries and chaired by Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. ASAP’s 20-member Advisory Board includes some of the world’s most prominent researchers of poverty and global justice issues. Academics Stand against Poverty 230 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 http://academicsstand.org/ i