DSDS aims to step up the ante and to provide fresh impetus to the MDGs. The DSDS will therefore be focused on assessing the achievements, disappointments, and lessons from seven years of action towards the attainment of the MDGs. DSDS will specially focus on exploring the natural resource dimensions of sustainable development. The incessant depletion of natural resources, both a cause and consequence of varied forms of human deprivation, will be examined at length during the deliberations.