strategy
Ensuring local authorities use environmentally sound building materials
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 calls upon local authorities to play a pioneering role in promoting the increased use of environmentally sound building materials and construction technologies, [eg] by pursuing an innovative procurement policy.
Broader:
Constructing sustainablyDeveloping construction materials industryIncreasing local autonomy of government biodiversity conservation programmes Facilitates:
Recycling building materialsAcquiring low-cost building suppliesUtilizing indigenous building materialDeveloping inexpensive building materials Facilitated by:
Developing local environmental health action plansIncluding environmental management in activities of local authoritiesCreating databases on the environmental impacts of building materials Subjects:
Fundamental Sciences → MaterialIndustry → Construction
Government → Municipalities
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
