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Chapter 40 of Agenda 21 calls on countries and the international
community to develop indicators of sustainable development. Such indicators
are needed to increase focus on sustainable development and assist
decision-makers at all levels to adopt sound national sustainable
development policies.
The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, (see
Chapter X), and the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at its
11th and
13th
sessions encouraged further work on indicators for sustainable development
by countries, in line with their specific conditions and priorities. CSD-13
invited the international community to support efforts of developing
countries in this regard. The third, revised set of CSD indicators was
finalized in 2006 by a group of experts from developing and developed
countries and international organizations. The revised edition contains 96
indicators, including a subset of 50 core indicators. The
guidelines on indicators and their detailed
methodology sheets are now available as a reference for all countries to
develop national indicators of sustainable development.
The CSD indicator set is based on the previous two (1996 and 2001) editions,
which have been developed, improved and extensively tested as part of the
implementation of the Work Programme on Indicators of Sustainable
Development adopted by the CSD at its
third session in
1995 and presented to the CSD in 2001.
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