Law

[chirag shah]

Dear all students what is Agenda 21?

[src4592]

Respected Sir,Its aim was to promote a vision of sustainable development by controlling poverty, disease and overpopulation; fostering conservation, atmospheric protection, pollution controls and biodiversity; and by establishing a greater role in all of this for non-state actors like women’s groups, young people, NGOs and business.

It also promoted local participation – many cities and local authorities around the world have signed up to ICLEI – also known as Local Governments for Sustainability – which encourages their participation in implementing Agenda 21 initiatives.

It’s not a treaty, does not override national sovereignty and does not allow the UN to dictate what governments do. It has no legal force and is not intended to be implemented in a top-down way.

Nevertheless, almost as soon as it was inked, Agenda 21 became the focus of conspiracy thinking, which at first mostly came from the far right.


The main thrust of most of those conspiracy theories echoes Roberts’s remarks to the Senate: Agenda 21 is in fact a UN plan to deprive nations of their sovereignty, and individuals of their property rights.
But many countries are violating these all environmental conservation or pollution control laws or act,in greedy nature of government!

[Krishna Prajapati]

Agenda 21("21" in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st century) is the global plan of action that was adopted at the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, in 1992, also known as the Rio Earth Summit.
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and
locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major
Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. Agenda 21, the
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles
for the Sustainable Management of Forests were adopted by more than 178
Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992.
The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992
to ensure effective follow-up of UNCED, to monitor and report on implementation
of the agreements at the local, national, regional and international levels. It was
agreed that a five year review of Earth Summit progress would be made in 1997 by
the United Nations General Assembly meeting in special session.
The full implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for Further Implementation
of Agenda 21 and the Commitments to the Rio principles, were strongly reaffirmed
at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg,
South Africa..

[lokeshdeva]

Agenda 21 is being implemented worldwide at all scales and in all sectors, but progress has not been as rapid as anticipated at the UNCED in 1992. The use of geographic data and related technologies will help overcome a number of implementation challenges, in particular the traditional fragmented approach toward sustainable development.

[lokeshdeva]

Agenda 21 adopted at the UN conference at Rio, represents a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on socio-economic development and environmental cooperation. The foremost responsibility for leading this change was placed on national governments. Each government was expected to design national strategies, plans, and policies for sustainable development in consonance with the country's particular situation, capacity and priorities. This was to be done in partnership with international organizations, business, regional, state and local governments, non-government organizations and citizens groups.