Agenda 21

Agenda 21 is a programme to develop sustainability all over the world, approved by 173 governments at the United Nations Congress for the Environment held in Río de Janeiro in 1992. It takes on economic, social and cultural aspects, as well as the environment. Point 28 encourages local communities to create their own version, the Local Agenda 21.

The truth of the matter is that a large part of the aims of Agenda 21 depend almost exclusively on the role of local communities. This means the decisions, attitudes and behaviour of local people and authorities, who are concerned with the setting up, the operation and the maintenance of the economic, social and ecological infrastructure, supervising the planning process, establishing local ecological policies and legislation and contributing to carrying out environmental policies on both a domestic and international plane. People play a fundamental role in education for sustainable development.