UN Commission on Sustainable Development

"We have a critical and complex task ahead of us. The CSD has achieved some successes over the past ten years. However, in order to ensure its continued relevance, the CSD can and must do more to facilitate implementation of our sustainable development objectives. That was the resounding call from states in Johannesburg. For the United States, the promise of a reformed, relevant CSD is the perfect example of what we look for in a reformed and increasingly relevant United Nations."
--Jonathan Margolis, Remarks to the 1/27 Organizational Meeting of the CSD