Diary 21

In 1992, at the time of the top of the Earth of Rio, 173 countries adopt the program Action 21 (or Agenda 21 for the French-speaking countries). It is a declaration which fixes an action plan for the 21e century in fields very diversified in order to direct itself towards a Sustainable development of planet. Thus, Action 21 enumerates some 2500 recommendations concerning the problems related to the Santé, with the Logement, the Air pollution, management of the seas, the forests and the mountains, with the Désertification, management of the water resources and the cleansing, with the management of the Agriculture, the Gestion of waste.
Aujourd'hui, the program Action 21 remains the reference for the implementation of sustainable development to the level of the territories.
Within the framework of chapter 28 of this Diary 21, the territorial collectivities are invited, while being pressed on the local partners who are the companies, the inhabitants and associations, to set up a Diary 21 at their scale, called Agenda 21 room.

Chapters of Action 21

1. Social dimension and economic

International cooperation aiming at progressing quickly towards a Sustainable development in the countries in the process of development
Fight against poverty
Modification of the modes of demographic consumption
Dynamic and durability
Protection and promotion of health
Promotion of a viable model of human settlement
Integration of the process of decision making on the environment and the development
Implemented of a local food system

2. Conservation and stock management for purposes of development

Protection of the atmosphere
Design integrated of the planning and the management of the grounds
Fight against the deforestation, the turning into a desert and the dryness
Development durable of the mountains
Promotion of an agricultural and rural development durable
Safeguarding of biological diversity
Protection of the oceans, seas and coastal areas
soft Protection of the water resources and their quality
ecologically rational Management (of chemical substances toxic, dangerous waste, solids and radioactive.)

3. Reinforcement of the social independent groups

Women, children and young people.
Populations autochtones.
ONG.
Local government agencies, workers and trade unions.
Trade, industry, scientists, technicians, farmers.

4. Means of implementation

Resources and mechanisms
Transfer of ecologically rational techniques and international cooperation
Science to the service of a Sustainable development
Promotion of education, sensitizing of the public and training
institutional and legal Instruments adapted
Information

The step Agenda 21 of development of a project of territory answering the principles of sustainable development is pressed from now on on legislative bases. For the Law Voynet, voted in 1999, it is advisable to add the law on the inter-commune co-operation (1999) and the law solidarity and urban renewal (SRU, 2000) as well as the law of agricultural orientation (leasing, 1999) and the law democracy of proximity (2002). Each one of these laws proposes with the owner local government agencies building of the tools which support, to the local plan, a durable development policy in the direction of the orientations of Rio of 1992.

Others

One can note that the values and recommendations conveyed by Diary 21, true call to the action, could be declined by some other structures that the local government agencies, with the image of Diary 21 of the sport in France. In addition, certain companies made the step be made accompany on its new stakes by tools by assistance to the installation by Diary 21. Various consultancies propose of such services or supports of application such as for example an exhaustive encyclopedia of the clauses of durable purchases.

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