Agenda 21

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Agenda 21

• International Initiative

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Earth Summit

• Agenda 21 was established at the 1992 United
  Nations Conference on Environment and Development
  in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Agenda 21 is a commitment to sustainable
  development, which was agreed by many of the
  worlds governments.

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Agenda 21

• Countries that have agreed to Agenda 21 are
  encouraged to conserve and preserve their
  environments and natural resources at local and
  national level.

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• Agenda 21 tackles social and environmental
• problems, including
• air pollution
• deforestation
• biodiversity loss
• health
• overpopulation
• poverty
• energy consumption
• waste production
• transport.

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Sustainable development

• Sustainable development encourages the
  conservation and preservation of natural
  resources and of the environment.
• If sustainable development is to be successful we
  all have to change our attitudes to our current
  lifestyles and the impact they have on the
  environment.

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Conservation and preservation

• Conservation is the sustainable use and
  management of natural resources, including
  wildlife, water, air and earth deposits. The
  conservation of trees involves making sure that
  they are not used faster than they can be
  replaced.
• Conservationists say that development is
  necessary for a better future, but only if the
  changes are not wasteful.

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Conservation and preservation

• Preservation attempts to maintain in their
  present condition areas of the Earth that are so
  far untouched by humans.
• Many landscapes are being taken over by farming,
  industry, housing, tourism and other human
  developments, and we are losing many landscapes
  that are truly natural.

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Energy

• Energy is needed for heating, electricity,
  manufacturing, construction and transportation.
• Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) are
  non-renewable. The average person in the UK uses
  35 times as much energy as someone in India.
• Renewable energy sources include solar power,
  wind power and hydroelectric power. Agenda 21
  requires countries to increase the proportion of
  energy supplied by renewable schemes that do not
  produce greenhouse gases, which may cause global
  warming.

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Transport

• Transport is damaging our environment, producing
  pollutants that lead to acid rain, poor air
  quality and global warming.
• Governments need to control the rate of traffic
  growth and improve the performance of vehicles.
• People need to be encouraged to become less
  dependent on cars and increase their use of
  public transport.

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Waste

• The more waste we produce the more we have to
  dispose. Sustainable waste management encourages
  the generation of less waste, the re-use of
  consumables and the recycling of waste that is
  produced.
• Waste includes paper, plastics, glass, metals,
  foods, chemicals, oils, bricks and wood.
• The UK aims to reduce, re-use, recycle and
  recover waste.