UN Commission for Social Development

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Context

• India's permanent representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, chaired a briefing in preparation for the 62nd UN Commission for Social Development.

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)

Establishment

• The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was established by the UN General Assembly in December 1992.

Purpose

• To ensure effective follow-up of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit.

CSD Responsibilities

• The Commission is responsible for reviewing progress in the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.

Other responsibilities

• Providing policy guidance to follow up the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) at the local, national, regional and international levels.

CSD Meetings

• The CSD meets annually in New York, in two-year cycles, with each cycle focusing on clusters of specific thematic and cross-sectoral issues.

Participation

• The CSD has opened its sessions to broad participation from both governmental and non-governmental actors.

CSD Membership & Bureau

• As a functional commission of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), CSD has 53 member States (about one-third of the members are elected every year).
• Each session of the CSD elects a Bureau, comprised of a Chair and four vice-Chairs.

READ ABOUT:

ECOSOC

https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/un-economic-and-social-council-15

https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/un-economic-and-social-council

AGENDA-21

https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/the-breakthrough-agenda

RIO DECLARATION:

https://www.iasgyan.in/ig-uploads/pdf/Eco_Env_file_extra.pdf