Agenda 21

What?
Global National Local
When
Created for the Earth Summit 1992
Signed by 178 countries

What we do locally
affects what happens nationally
affects what happens globally.


What is Agenda 21
Action Plan
Focusing on Sustainable Development


Agenda 21 Focus on
Social and environmental issues to
improve the human living conditions for
future generations

Now
World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg 2002
strongly reaffirmed the commitment to
Agenda 21
Going Local
Local authorities around the world
worked with their own communities
to develop action plans about the issues
covered in Agenda 21
and so
Agenda 21 Local Agenda 21
Tony Blair
In 1997 Tony Blair required all Local
Authorities in the UK to have Local
Agenda 21 strategies by the year 2000
So, in theory
You should be able to find out about
your local authority and what it is doing.