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Commission on Sustainable Development
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At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro - the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - in 1992, the term "sustainable development" was introduced, meaning development with balanced environmental, economic and social dimensions.
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (SCSD) - was established by the General Assembly in 1992 to review the implementation of the decisions of the Rio Conference at the local, regional and global levels and to improve UN activities in the field of environment and development.
Documentation
The individual documents from the Commission on Sustainable Development carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/CN.17 Commission number 17 = Commission on Sustainable Development |
-/year |
-/current number |
Ex. E/CN.17/2003/6 Economic and Social Council, Commission on Sustainable Development, year 2003, document 6 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission and full text documents and reports can be accessed from the official web page of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
Documents in print for the period 1946-1992 are included in the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
The Commission on Sustainable Development submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as Reports at the ECOSOC official Web page.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents with links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet - the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.
Printed Indexes