Commission on Sustainable Development

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• Commission on Sustainable Development
• Overview of CSD-14 -- Way forward for CSD-5
• Regional Workshop on Sustainable Development
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Mexico City, 7-8 September 2006
• Kathleen L. Abdalla
• Division for Sustainable Development
• Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• United Nations

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• Rio Conference on Environment and Development
  1992 Agenda 21
• Millennium Summit 2000
• 9th Session of the Commission on Sustainable
  Development 2001
• World Summit on Sustainable Development,
  Johannesburg, 2002
• World Summit 2005
• CSD14 2006 / CSD15 2007

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• CSD Post Johannesburg
• Focus on Implementation
• Two Year Cycle
• 1st Year review and Assessment
• 2nd Year Policy year
• Partnership Fair
• Learning Centre
• Regional Input

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• CSD-14/15 Issues

Energy for Sustainable Development Industrial
Development Air Pollution/Atmosphere Climate
Change
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CSD14/15 Energy for Sustainable Development,
Industrial Development, Air pollution/atmosphere,
climate change
Regional Preparatory Meetings Europe, Latin
America, West Asia, Africa, Asia Pacific.
Related Activities and meetings
Secretary Generals Report

CSD14 April/May 2006
WSSD Partnership Results
Chairs Summary

Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting Feb 2007
Chairs summary/ negotiating document

CSD15Policy deliberations and agreements
CSD15 30 April- 11May 2007




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Partnerships for Sustainable Development Post
WSSD

• Global Village Energy Partnership
• Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
  Partnership
• Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles
• Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership
• The LPG Challenge
• http//www.un.org/esa/sustdev/partnerships/partner
  ships.htm

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CSD-14 Challenges for the Way Forward Energy for
Development

• Providing energy for all access to reliable and
  affordable energy services
• Promoting energy efficiency
• Increasing the share of renewable energy
• Development, use and transfer of cleaner energy
  technologies
• Reducing health effects from use of traditional
  biomass energy
• Integrating energy for sustainable development in
  national development plans

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CSD-14 Challenges for the Way Forward Industrial
Development

• Promoting and enabling environment for industrial
  development in developing countries through
• integration into global markets and supply
  changes,
• trade liberalization,
• improving market access,
• strengthening capacity to diversify exports,
• boost productivity and meet product standards,
• particularly for SMEs
• Promoting good governance including a transparent
  legal and regulatory framework
• Changing unsustainable patterns of consumption
  and production

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CSD-14 Challenges for the Way Forward Air
Pollution/Atmosphere

• Reducing air pollution --focus on
• Transportation
• Industry
• Urban development
• Energy production and consumption
• Reducing Indoor air pollution from traditional
  biomass fuels and its health impacts on women and
  children

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CSD-14 Challenges for the Way Forward Climate
Change

• Promoting international cooperation on climate
  change -- urgently
• Mitigation and adaptation
• Strengthening support to vulnerable countries on
  adaptation SIDS, LDCs
• Reinforcing the Clean Development Mechanism

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CSD-14 Challenges for the Way Forward

• Enhancing international and regional cooperation
• Enhancing role of partnerships
• Addressing special needs of AFRICA, SIDS, LDCs
  and landlocked countries
• Enhancing role and status of women
• Mobilizing resources
• Integrating issues into national sustainable
  development strategies. PRSPs.

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Matrix of Activities

• Information tool -- continually updated
• Case studies/lessons learned
• Practical experiences on implementation
• Inputs from Governments, NGOs, UN agencies,
  regional and international organizations
• lthttp//www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd14/documents
  /matrixCSD14.pdfgt

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lthttp//www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd14/documents
/matrixCSD14.pdfgt
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CSD-15 Policy Options and Practical Measures

• Menu of policy options
• Case studies/lessons learned
• Practical measures
• Matrix of activities
• Regional inputs
• lthttp//www.un.org/esa/sustdevgt

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