To ensure that sustainable development tops the agenda of the highest levels of government, members at Rio+20 agreed to change from the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), which was formed after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development. The inaugural meeting of the HLPF took place on September 24, 2013.
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