Commission on Sustainable Development -19

May 3 to 5, 2011

Commission on Sustainable Development – 19

The Commission on Sustainable Development is off to a running start. This CSD Conference from May 3 to 13 is doing ‘double duty’ in addressing the themes of CSD – 19 and preparing for Rio +20 in June, 2012.

This years themes for CSD cover: transport, chemicals, waste management, mining and sustainable consumption and development.  All of these themes affecting our carbon foot print and the need to go GREEN.

Mining is receiving major attention, as communities across the globe protest the land degradation, lost of ancestral lands, increased poverty, illnesses resulting from toxins in water and river systems.

The out cry is heard not only in developing countries but in the USA, as people protest the drilling for natural gas by the energy companies that result in contaminated drinking water. 

More on this issue later next week.