Definition
Sustainable economic development means that ‘development should take place without damaging the environment and development in the present should not compromise with the needs of future generation’.
Efforts taken towards Sustainable development
Rio de Janeiro; Earth Summit:
- In June 1992 considering the same issue more than 100 heads of states met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, for the first International Earth Summit.
- The summit was organized for addressing urgent problems of environmental protection and socioeconomic development at the global level.
- The Rio Convention endorsed the global forest principles and adopted Agenda 21 for achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.
Agenda 21
- Agenda 21 was the declaration signed by world leaders in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which aimed at achieving global sustainable development.
- It is an agenda to fight environmental damage, poverty, disease through global cooperation on common interests, mutual needs and shared responsibilities.
- One major objective of the Agenda 21 was that every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21.
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What is the Agenda 21? ?
- Agenda 21 was the declaration signed by world leaders in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which aimed at achieving global sustainable development.
- It is an agenda to fight environmental damage, poverty, disease through global cooperation on common interests, mutual needs and shared responsibilities.
- One major objective of the Agenda 21 was that every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21.c