AFTER 20 YEARS, UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HOLDS FINAL SESSION

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Date: 20 Sep 2013 15:00:00 -0400
Subject: AFTER 20 YEARS, UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
HOLDS FINAL SESSION
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AFTER 20 YEARS, UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HOLDS FINAL
SESSIONNew York, Sep 20 2013 3:00PMMarking an important milestone,
the United Nations commission on sustainable use of the world's
resources today concluded two decades of work, paving the way for the
incoming High-level Political Forum to boost efforts to tackle global
economic, social and environmental challenges.

"The Commission's seminal work both gave us a working definition of
sustainable development and inspired the very first international
conference to address both the environment and economic development
simultaneously, the Rio Earth Summit," said General Assembly
<"http://www.un.org/en/ga/president/68/#&panel1-1">President John W.
Ashe in a <"http://www.un.org/en/ga/president/68/pdf/statements/20092013PGACSD20.pdf">statement
delivered by his Deputy Chef-de-Cabinet, Noel Sinclair.

The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was formed after
the 1992 Summit and helped to generate action on a range of issues
that led to international agreements or treaties on energy, oceans,
sustainable consumption and production, and others.

Its work also led to the establishment of the UN Forum on Forests,
which has advanced progress on sustainable forestry through the
adoption of the non-legally binding instrument on all types of forests
in 2007.

Mr. Ashe, a former President of one of the CSD sessions and a national
of Antigua and Barbuda, said the Commission also gave the world's
small island developing States, and other countries in special
circumstances, a "voice in this all-important conversation."

According to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's report on the lessons
learned from the Commission, the contributions achieved by the CSD
were also accompanied by a number of shortcomings, including the
failure to fully integrate the economic, social and environmental
dimensions of sustainable development.

The Commission, the report found, was also weak on its review and
impact on the implementation of sustainable development.

In June, the UN General Assembly established the High-level Political
Forum, which will be launched on Tuesday at the high-level General
Assembly debate in New York.

The meeting is due to chart the course for implementing outcomes of
the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, as
well as accelerate progress on the eight anti-poverty targets known as
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and define a new development
agenda post-2015.

The creation of the Forum emerged from Rio+20's outcome document "The
Future We Want," to ensure that sustainable development tops the
agenda of the highest levels of Government and is embraced by all
actors.

"Rio+20 overhauled UN institutions for sustainable development,"
Bektas Mukhamedzhanov, Kazakhstan Vice-Minister of Environment
Protection, said. "We must effectively use the new High-Level
Political Forum to ensure that sustainable development continues to be
implemented and is integrated into the heart of the post-2015
development agenda."

The Forum is due to convene annually at the ministerial level under
the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and it
will, every four years, bring together heads of State to provide added
momentum for sustainable development.

"One distinct benefit of the new forum is that it is designed to
attract participation from representatives of all three dimensions of
sustainable development, rather than chiefly from members of the
environmental community," Mr. Ashe said in today's statement.

In an event marking the closure, the head of the United Nations
environment agency (UNEP), Achim Steiner, said while the closing feels
melancholy, it should be an occasion to celebrate.

"It's an affirmation of evolution," Mr. Steiner said, not the
equivalent of extinction, as CSD is replaced by its next articulation.

Also addressing the participants, UN Under-Secretary-General for
Economic and Social Affairs Wu Hongbo said the transition starts a new
period in history.

"There is a realization that sustainable development—the integration
of policies and actions that promote economic and social well-being
that also protect the environment—have to have a prominent place on
the international agenda at the highest levels," Mr. Hongbo said.Sep
20 2013 3:00PM
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