The Commission on Sustainable Development
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The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was established in December 1992 by General Assembly Resolution A/RES/47/191 as a functional commission of the UN Economic and Social Council, implementing a recommendation in Chapter 38 of Agenda 21, the landmark global agreement reached at the June 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development / Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro.
CSD 1:
CSD 1, the Organizational Session of the CSD was held in June 1993. The Organizational Session focused on a broad range of organizational and administrative issues, reflected in topics of the Commission's documents:
Budget implications of draft decisions
Establishing a provisional agenda & a multi-year programme of work
National reporting on implementation of Agenda 21
Information exchange: UN System & Donors
UNCED follow up: international organizations & UN Coordination
Coordination of development data
Progress in environmentally sound technology transfer
Initial financial commitments & flows
Government information on financial commitments
Urgent & major emergent issues
UNCTAD & Agenda 21 implementation
UNEP & Agenda 21 implementation
Issues relating to future work of CSD
Guidelines for national reporting
Multi-year programme of work
Financial commitments & financial flows
Integrating sustainable development in the UN System
CSD 5:
In its Fifth Session, the principal focus of the CSD was to prepare for the Five-Year Review of the 1992 Earth Summit, which took the form of the 19th Special Session of the General Assembly, held at UN Headquarters in New York.
CSD 10:
For its Tenth Session the CSD served as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg in December 2002.
CSD 12:
The Twelfth Session of the CSD is the first substantive session since the Johannesburg Summit - CSD-11 was an organizational session that focused on establishing priorities and an agenda for the second ten-year cycle of the Commission. Text below in "quotes" is from the introductory note from the Chair - H.E. Børge Brende, Norwegian Minister of the Environment [3] to a description of the organization of work during CSD-12.
"The first three days of CSD-12 will serve as the preparatory meeting for the ten-year review of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA) for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.
The bulk of CSD-12 will focus on water, sanitation and human settlements. "The decision of CSD-11 to focus its first Implementation Cycle on Water, Sanitation and Human Settlements bears testimony to the sense of urgency the international community ascribes to these issues."
"Today, water-borne diseases kill a person every ten seconds, the overwhelming majority children, and roughly one in two Sub-Saharan Africans and three in five South Asians lack adequate sanitation. The total number of people living in slums is close to 930 million and is growing at an accelerated rate."
"The CSD-12 Review Session will feature a number of “firsts”. Thematic reviews will feature interactive discussions and will be introduced through keynote presentations, panel discussions and moderated debates. Major Group representatives will join Ministers in interactive dialogues during the High-Level Segment."
CSD 16:
The Chair is H.E. Mr. Francis Nhema, Minister of Environment and Tourism (Zimbabwe).
CSD 18:
The 18th session takes place in New York in May 2010, focusing on transport, chemicals, waste management, mining, and the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns (SCP).
