Commission on Sustainable Development

The problem of sustainable development of the NSS, initiated at the Rio de Janeiro 1992 Summit, is being discussed and supervised by the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Its main mandate is to monitor the progress that has been made on the path toward a sustainable future. The CSD in its third session in 1995 adopted a five-year Work Program on Indicators of Sustainable Development. The elements of the Work Program on Indicators of Sustainable Development are as follows ... 

CliC CLIVAR CLRTAP CM CO COADS COLA COP CORP CPI CPL CPR CRC CRF CRP CRS CSD CSIRO Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project CLImate VARiability and predictability Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Climate Model Carbon monoxide Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set Center of the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere system study Conference of the Parties Chinese Ozone Research Program Consumer Price Index Cloud Physics Lidar Continuous Plankton Recorder program Chemical Rubber Company Cloud Radiative Forcing Conservation Reserve Program Cloud Radar System Commission on Sustainable Development Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research... 

United Nations (2000) Changing consumption and production patterns organic agriculture.- Department of Economic and Social Affairs Commission on Sustainable Development., Eighth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, 24 April-5 May 2000, prepared by the Division for Sustainable Development, New York, US. 

First meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development established to ensure effective follow-up to UNCED, enhance international cooperation, and rationalize intergovernmental decision-making capacity, http //www.un.org/esa/sustdev/... 

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Indicators of Sustainable Development Guidelines and Methodologies, United Nations, 2001. Available at http // www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/isdms2001/isd-ms2001isd.htm. 

Although this original definition has evolved (see, for example, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development - CSD http // vww.un.org/esa/desa/... 

UN Commission on Sustainable Development Fifth session. 7-25 April 1997 Report of the Secretary-General on Management of toxic chemicals and hazardous and radioactive wastes (E/CN.17/2001/PC/19), 2001,2-10. 

In 1998, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) recognised that business and industry would play a crucial role in the global quest for sustainable development and, on that occasion, UNCSD made reference to the OECD Risk Assessment Programme on brominated flame retardants as a model example of a global, voluntary chemical industry initiative. 

This is a 40-chapter action plan for sustainable development. It established tasks, targets, costs, etc., for actions which combine economie development and environmental proteetion. In many nations, e g. the UK, the suggestions of Agenda 21 have been incorporated into local, regional and national development strategies. It led to the establishment of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 1992. 

Current thinking on sustainable development came out of a United Nations Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 (Bruntland... 

Oertel, D. and Fleischer, T. (2003). Fuel Cells. Impact and Consequences of Fuel Cells Technology on Sustainable Development. Technical Report Series EUR 20681 EN. Seville European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). 

In the Priorities for Action of the IFCS in the year 2000, the target year 2008 was set for implementation of a harmonised system, and this was endorsed by the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. The system adopted in late 2002 was revised in 2005 and 2006 (UNECE 2007). Responsibility rests with the United Nations Economic and Social Council Sub-Committee of Experts on the GHS under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The target of full GHS implementation by 2008 has not been reached, but implementation is well underway. Major actors have set deadlines, such as the United States (transportation 2010) and the European Union (2010 for classification of substances and 2015 for mixtures). 

Fleischer, T., Oertel, D. (2003). Fuel cells - impact and consequences of fuel cell technology on sustainable development. Report EUR 20681 EN, European Commission JRC, Sevilla. 

Environmental management has moved on to embrace the concept of Sustainable Development. The 1987 World Commission on Environment/ Development under the guidance of Gro Harlem Brundtland (Prime Minister of Norway) made Sustainable Development the theme of its entire report called Our Common Future. It defined Sustainable Development as development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In the UK in the mid-1990s the Department of Trade and Industry (DU) modified the definition to development which ensures a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. ... 

European Commission Directorate-General JRC (Joint Research Centre), Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Technologies for Sustainable Development, European IPPC Bureau (2000) Integrate Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Reference Document on Best Available Techniques in the Chlor-Alkali Manufacturing Industry. IPTS, Seville, 2000. 

On 29 October 2003, the Commission adopted a proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for chemicals, the so-called REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of CHemicals). This new regulatory framework achieved all the objectives identified in the White Paper (EU 2001) and thus represents a model of sustainable development by pursuing its three main goals economic (industrial competitiveness), social (health protection and jobs), and environmental. 

NOTE The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as "developmenf fhaf meefs fhe need of fhe present without compromising the ability of fufure generafions to meef fheir needs."... 

The general opinion about the aforementioned problems and the ad hoc technical solutions is that they are by no means sufficient. The essential concept when thinking about these subjects nowadays is sustainability. It was greatly helped by the description and definition by the Brundtland report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), Our Common Future (11) ... 

World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future, Chapter 2 Towards Sustainable Development. Available from www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm/. 

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