strategy
Enabling affordable environmental infrastructure for the poor
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends adopting appropriate legal and regulatory instruments, including cross-subsidy arrangements, to extend the benefits of adequate and affordable environmental infrastructure to unserved population groups, especially the poor. Broader:
Studying causes of environmental povertyTackling poverty through environmental health measures Constrained by:
Ensuring full cost recovery for infrastructure services Values:
Poverty Subjects:
Society → DisadvantagedIndustry → Utilities
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
