Agenda 21: background and concept - Agenda 21 framework

Sustainable development is now at the heart of regional planning issues, and the challenges of achieving more sustainable development are many: responding to climate change while maintaining economic dynamism, controlling environmental impacts and energy consumption, preserving and managing natural resources, limiting threats to public health, developing solidarity and quality of life, and reducing poverty...

Adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the Agenda 21 program of sustainable development actions for the 21st century has now become a genuine sustainable development tool for local authorities and regions.