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The UN Commission on Sustainable Development: Which Mechanisms Explain Its Accomplishments?

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The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) has been criticized for lack of effectiveness since its establishment in 1993. The main objective of this article is to describe and explain the mechanisms that affect the work of the CSD, in order to understand how it would be possible to enhance the potential for effectiveness. The study aims to apply the perspectives of "distribution of capabilities" and "institutional design" to evaluate the CSD's accomplishments during its fırst ten-year period. I conclude that the CSD has achieved some results in monitoring and reviewing the process on the implementation of Agenda 21 and promoting dialogue and building partnerships for sustainable development, due to the role of the secretariat and nongovernmental organizations. However, the member states' positions and interests have contributed to the CSD's low goal attainment, especially in the area of policy guidance. (c) 2007 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Stine Madland Kaasa, 2007. "The UN Commission on Sustainable Development: Which Mechanisms Explain Its Accomplishments?," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 7(3), pages 107-129, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:7:y:2007:i:3:p:107-129
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    1. Steinar Andresen, 2007. "Key actors in UN environmental governance: influence, reform and leadership," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 7(4), pages 457-468, December.
    2. Frank Biermann, 2013. "Curtain down and Nothing Settled: Global Sustainability Governance after the ‘Rio+20’ Earth Summit," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 31(6), pages 1099-1114, December.
    3. Marianne Beisheim & Felicitas Fritzsche, 2022. "The UN High‐Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: An orchestrator, more or less?," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 13(5), pages 683-693, November.
    4. Björn-Ola Linnér & Henrik Selin, 2013. "The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: Forty Years in the Making," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 31(6), pages 971-987, December.
    5. Oscar Widerberg & Frank Laerhoven, 2014. "Measuring the autonomous influence of an international bureaucracy: the Division for Sustainable Development," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 14(4), pages 303-327, November.

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