United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

What is the UN/CSD?

How is the Project involved?

One of the long-term aims of this Project is "To put the cooperating trade unions in a position to participate fully in the formulation and implementation of national environmental and sustainable development policies which reflect the special needs and concern of the workers and their organizations." The Project aims to increase trade union participation in consultative and/or decision making bodies such as the UN/CSD in order to influence decisions and their impacts on the worker.

Before yearly ministerial meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UN/CSD), pre-meeting sessions are held which engage the various Social Partners in a dialogue about their positions on the theme of that year. For the past three years, the Project has cooperated with the ICFTU, who oversees the coordination of the trade union participation. ( More details on the ICFTU can be found at )

The following topics have been discussed at recent UN/CSD meetings:

	1997: The Challenge of Collective Engagement Trade Union involvement at the 5 th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Table of Contents Programme Trade Union "Dialogue Session", 14 April 1997 - New York National Implementation and Reporting: The Time Has Come
	1998: Commitments for Sustainable Development, A Special Business and Industry Segment Trade Union involvement at the 6 th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Table of Contents The Project
	1999: Workers and Trade Unions in the Web of Tourism Trade Union involvement at the 7 th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Report of the UN Secretary-General to CSD99:  ILO "Indicators": An integrated approach to sustainable development The Web of Tourism as a Basis for Broad-Based Sustainable Development Desired Outcomes of the CSD 99 Tourism Dialogue 7th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, New York 19-30 April 1999 Address to the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Segment on Tourism by Leroy Trotman, President ICFTU, General Secretary Barbados Workers' Union

The Social Partners who participate in these dialogue sessions are:

• Trade Unions
• Business and Industry
• Local Authorities
• Non-governmental organisations

Key people that are involved in the Project activities around the world participate in the dialogue sessions, giving very valuable inputs from the real working life and the concerns for environmentally sustainable development.

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