The hundreds of authors that produce the reports are nominated by member governments and others. (sciencemag.org)
Though neither role could easily prevent member governments running separate national policies where they want to. (nextleft.org)
In 2010, HSI and its allies successfully fought off a proposal by a number of member governments — including the United States — to relax the quarter - century - old worldwide ban on commercial whaling. (hsi.org)