Which of the following UN commission is responsible for reviewing progress in the implementation
Acenda 21 and the Rio Dedaration on Environment and Development?
(a) united Nation Disarmament Commission.
(b) United Nations Statistical Commission
(c) United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD
(d) United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Answers
The non-sustainable use of the world's natural resources and environmental degradation prompted the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 22 December 1989 to adopt resolution 44/228. This resolution called for a global meeting to devise integrated strategies that would halt and reverse the negative impact of human behaviour on the physical environment and promote environmentally long-term sustainable economic development in all countries.
UNCED, the meeting called for in UNGA resolution 44/228, was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3 to 14 June 1992. The Conference, attended by more than 178 heads of government, deputy heads of government, or ranking government ministers committed their respective governments to the 27 principles contained in the Declaration of Rio on Environment and Development (Rio Declaration) and the carefully negotiated text of Agenda 21: Programme of Action for Sustainable Development (Agenda 21). The Rio Declaration was endorsed by the UNGA in resolution 47/190 of 22 December 1992.
The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 were negotiated largely in a preparatory commission, consisting of four sessions between 1990 and 1992, at United Nations headquarters in New York. Most of the text was agreed at the officials level in the preparatory commission, though a number of important issues, and in particular those matters relating to the funding for the implementation of Agenda 21, were addressed, if not resolved, at a political level at the Rio Summit. Although the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 do not have legally binding effect, both texts, nonetheless, carry a strong moral obligation for States to ensure that they are fully and effectively implemented.