Inspired by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, the International Sustainability Unit (ISU) is working to facilitate consensus on how to resolve some of the key environmental challenges facing the world, specifically those to do with food security, ecosystem resilience and the depletion of Natural Capital.
While continuing to monitor progress on the tropical forest finance package agreed in Oslo in May 2010, the ISU has been developing two further significant workstreams; sustainable agriculture and marine ecosystems. The ISU seeks to advance possible solutions by convening the public, private and NGO sectors.?
Following wide consultation, the I.S.U. has produced a Joint Declaration on Action for Wild Marine Fisheries. The motivation for the Declaration came from the observation that there is often more agreement on how to reform fisheries than is generally believed to be the case. Through signalling that there is indeed broad consensus on the opportunity of more sustainable fisheries management and the ways to achieve this goal, it is hoped that the Declaration might play a small part in helping to build the confidence, energy and partnerships necessary to achieve the scale of change required.
We are very grateful to the large and diverse group of fishing organisations, companies and non-governmental groups that have signed up to the I.S.U.’s Joint Declaration on Action for Wild Marine Fisheries.