CSD-12:  Regional Implementation Meetings

The Plan of Implementation adopted at the WSSD in 2002 stated that the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the Summit should be effectively pursued at the regional and subregional levels, through the UN Regional Commissions and other institutions and bodies.

The CSD, at its eleventh session, invited the United Nations Regional Commissions to consider organizing regional implementation meetings, in collaboration with the secretariat of the CSD, in order to contribute to the work of the CSD and to advance implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.

In 2003 and 2004, UN Regional Commissions organized a series of review and assessment meetings in preparation of CSD 13, as follows:

Regional Meetings

ECA

• UNCC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8-12 December 2003
  Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water
  Report
  Ministerial Communique
  Brochure

ECE

• ECE Headquarters, Geneva, 15-16 January 2004
  Regional Implementation Forum on Sustainable Development
  Chair’s Summary

ECLAC

• La Paz, Bolivia, 5-7 November 2003
  Regional Forum of Ministers of Housing and Urban Dev
  Report (English | Spanish)
  Political Declaration (English | Spanish)

• Santiago, Chile, 17-18 November 2003
  Expert group meeting on WSSD Outcomes Review
   Provisional Agenda

•  Panama, 20-25 November 2003
   Regional Forum of Ministers of Environment
   Final Report

ESCAP

• ESCAP Headquarters, Bangkok, 27-28 October 2003
  Regional implementation meeting
  Final Report

ESCWA

• Cairo, Egypt, 19-21 October 2003
  Joint Committee on Environment and Development in the Arab Region (JCEDAR) under the League of Arab States
  Final Report

Additional information on the work of the UN Regional Economic Commission in the area of sustainable development is available on the Commissions’ Websites:

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)