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Commission on Sustainable Development

The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was a body under the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) tasked with overseeing the outcomes of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development/Earth Summit. It was replaced in 2013 by the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, which meets both under the General Assembly every four years and the ECOSOC in other years. The 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 and Development/Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CSD 1, the first or "Organizational" session of the CSD, was held in New York 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 and a multi-year programme of work National reporting on implementation of Agenda 21 Information exchange: UN System and donors UNCED follow-up: international organizations and UN coordination Coordination of development data Progress in environmentally sound technology transfer Government information on financial commitments Urgent and major emergent issues United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Agenda 21 implementation UNEP and Agenda 21 implementation Future work Guidelines for national reporting Integrating sustainable development into the UN system 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. For its Tenth Session the CSD served as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in December 2002.

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