UN Commission on Sustainable Development 11th Session

From 28 April 2003 to 9 May 2003, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development met for the 11^th time. This was a planning / technical session. It set the agenda for follow up to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development for the next 14 years. Modalities for Stakeholder participation, the themes that would form the core of the agenda, the role of partnerships and the methodology of work were all on the agenda.

It was decided to organise the future sessions of the CSD into two-year cycles, where the first year would focus on review and identifying obstacles and the second year would focus on developing policy proposals to overcome obstacles or to further implementation of Agenda 21 in the specific theme-area under consideration.