write the preface of sst project sustainable development class 10 th
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A number of intergovernmental organizations and national governments, but also regional and local authorities, local communities, business organizations, other economic actors, academic institutions, and nongovernment organizations of many kinds, are developing and using sustainability indicators. At present, hundreds of different indicators and indices have been suggested and are used in many varied contexts, by different users, for diverse purposes. Specific indicators exist for all pillars of sustainable development. Some of them link selected phenomena to specific targets. So-called headline indicators seek to address the most important social, economic, or environmental issues. Aggregated indicators and indices try to capture a complex reality and propose a single and simple picture of it.
Indicators of sustainable development have figured prominently in research and policy agendas for many years. Agenda 21, adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992, expressed the need to formulate sets of indicators in order to better monitor and foster sustainable development. Many delegates reiterated this need at the first session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-1) in New York (1993). However, when concrete proposals for the development of such indicators were tabled during CSD-2 (1994), political will for their adoption was lacking. The CSD then commissioned the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to step in and undertake a joint project that was launched in 1994. SCOPE, established by the International Council of Science (ICSU) in 1969, acts at the interface between science and decision makers, providing advisors, policy planners, and decision makers with analytical tools to promote sound management and policy practices. SCOPE has the mandate to assemble and assess the information available on human-made environmental changes and the effects of these changes on people and to assess and evaluate the methods used to measure environmental parameters.
The SCOPE/UNEP project was designed
To bring together government delegates from all parts of the world, representatives of intergovernmental agencies, and scientific experts to discuss indicators of sustainable development in a nonpartisan context
To review existing sets of sustainability indicators developed (at that time) by various national and international agencies To provide the science base that subsequently helped initiate the political process that finally resulted in the adoption of the CSD Work Programme on Indicators (1995)
The synthesis volume that resulted from this project, SCOPE 58, Sustainability Indicators, was distributed to all delegations at the UN General Assembly Special Session in 1997 and reached a wide public through commercial distribution channels.
During the 2001 CSD-9 session it was stated that indicators of sustainable development are now widely accepted and used and are recognized as an essential component of the process leading to a sustainable path of development. Subsequent international forums have affirmed the importance of indicators of sustainable development. In 2002 the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development encouraged further work on indicators for sustainable development by countries at the national level (including integration of gender aspects) on a voluntary basis, in line with national conditions and priorities. In December 2005 the CSD reaffirmed the importance of indicators for sustainable development
There has been useful progress since the Rio Earth Summit launched an international indicator development process. Many—perhaps too many—indicators, indicator sets, and indices have been assembled. Although sustainability indicators are used ever more extensively and intensively by a wide range of users and in many different contexts, it does not necessarily follow that they are scientifically sound or used appropriately. There has been no consensus on a common set of scientific and management criteria for evaluating indicators from several points of view (e.g., reliability of supporting data, scientific rigor of definitions of indicators, validity of underlying assumptions and concepts, relevance of positive or negative trends for sustainable development). At the time of the first SCOPE/UNEP project, research on indicators was in the early development stage, research questions were still being refined, and the data simply were not there or were insufficient.
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sustainable development refers to development which takes place without harming the environment. These developments are very important for each and every country. Sustainable development can have various examples such as judicious use of resources.