![]() Intersessional Co-ChairsOsborn and Amorim chaired Drafting Groups I and II, respectively. ![]() Voluminous amendments to the draftProposed Outcome of the Special Session were considered. It began with a High-Level Segment and areview of reports from the Intersessional Working Group and the CSD IntergovernmentalPanel on Forests (IPF).ĭelegations continued to identify and elaborate the emerging priority issues that they hadconsidered at the Intersessional Working Group. Delegates also notedthe importance of the cross-sectoral issues of poverty and changing consumption andproduction patterns.įIFTH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT: The fifth session of the Commission on SustainableDevelopment (CSD-5) convened from 8-25 April 1997 at UN Headquarters in New Yorkto complete formal preparations for UNGASS. Most delegates highlighted freshwater, energy andtransport, forests and oceans as issues of new or priority concern. ![]() The re-draft provided a basis for informalconsultations prior to CSD-5. Celso Armorim (Brazil)after feedback from delegates on a first draft. The main output was a draft Proposed Outcome of the SpecialSession prepared by Co-Chairs Derek Osborn (UK) and Amb. Further progress was made at informal consultations inNew York during the week before UNGASS.ĬSD AD HOC OPEN-ENDED INTERSESSIONAL WORKINGGROUP: The Intersessional Working Group met from 24 February-7 March 1997 inNew York and focused on the format and substantive content of the document to beconsidered at UNGASS. In 1992, the General Assembly endorsed Agenda 21 and decided to convene a specialsession to review and appraise Agenda 21 implementation in its resolution 47/190.Negotiations on the text to be adopted at the 19th Special Session of the UN GeneralAssembly began earlier this year during the Commission for Sustainable Developments(CSD) Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group and continued at thefifth session of the CSD (CSD-5). There was little attempt to try to sweep thingsunder the carpet or put a gloss over something thats not there. A BRIEF HISTORY OF UNGASS Others,including United Nations General Assembly President Razali Ismail (Malaysia), felt thatthe meeting proved to be an honest attempt to try and make an appraisal of the results,and of how far we have gone from Rio. Some felt that the meeting had been a failure because governments hadshown a lack of political will to force more than convoluted compromises. When the Special Session came to a close at 1:15 onSaturday morning, delegates, NGOs and other observers left UN Headquarters withmixed feelings. The ∾arth Summit +5 proved to be a sobering reminder that little progress has beenmade over the past five years in implementing key components of Agenda 21 and movingtoward sustainable development. Negotiations held in a Committee of the Whole, as well as severalMinisterial groups, produced a Statement of Commitment and a Programme for theFurther Implementation of Agenda 21. 53 Heads of State and Government,along with ministers and other high-level officials, addressed the Assembly during theweek-long meeting. Agenda 21 is the Programme of Actionfor Sustainable Development agreed at UNCED. The Nineteenth United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to Reviewthe Implementation of Agenda 21 was held at United Nations Headquarters in New Yorkfrom 23-27 July 1997, five years after the United Nations Conference on Environmentand Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
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