CSD-11
The Commission will now function on the basis of two-year
"Implementation Cycles", including Review and Policy
Years. The Review Year will evaluate progress made in implementing
sustainable development goals and identifying obstacles and constraints, while the
Policy Year will decide on measures to speed up implementation and
mobilize action to overcome these obstacles and constraints.
For the first two-year cycle (2004-2005), the CSD will focus on water,
sanitation and human settlements, followed by energy, climate change,
atmosphere and industrial development issues in
the 2006-2007 cycle. In every cycle, a number of cross-cutting issues will be addressed,
such as poverty eradication, changing unsustainable patterns of
production and consumption, health, education and sustainable
development in a globalizing world, as well as means of
implementation.
The years 2016-2017 will be devoted to an overall appraisal of the
implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further
Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
CSD-11 also took a range of decisions on other practical issues relating
to its future programme and methods of work. These included: enhancing
the role of regional and sub-regional inputs to the CSD process; making
reporting mechanisms more effective; promoting greater collaboration and
cohesion between sustainable development activities undertaken by the UN
system and other international institutions; and strengthening the
involvement of major groups in the activities of the CSD.
Building on work undertaken through the WSSD process to encourage
partnerships between governments, major groups and other stakeholders
for implementing sustainable development initiatives on the ground,
delegates also agreed on a set of criteria and guidelines for
partnerships wanting to be recognized by the Commission, and decided
that such partnerships should report regularly on their progress.
The Commission elected H.E. Børge Brende, Norway's Minister of
Environment as Chairman of CSD-12.
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