It reflects a global agreement and political commitment at the highest level on development and environment teamwork. Its successful completion is first and foremost the responsibility of Governments...

At its sixth session, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Legally Binding Instrument for Implementing International Action on Certain Persistent Organic Pollutants, in its decision INC-6/17, requested the Secretariat to begin to address the environmental monitoring and evaluation needs as described in Article 16 of the Convention and in doing so to: (a) Develop guidance on the nature of the effectiveness evaluation; (b) Identify the basic data needed to support the effectiveness evaluation; (c) Assess the capacity of existing monitoring programmes to make available necessary monitoring data and then begin making arrangements for the provision of comparable monitoring data for the effectiveness evaluation...

Helped shape Our Common Future (see below). 1987 Our Common Future (also known as Brundtland Report) Published report of the World Commission on Environment and Development popularized term ‘sustainable development...

It is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day business and management of the WTO, and is based at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. In practice, this is the key decision-making arm of the WTO for most issues...