strategy
Increasing government / industry cooperation on waste minimization
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 that governments work with industry on sector-by-sector cleaner production and hazardous waste minimization campaigns, as well as on the reduction of such wastes and other emissions. Broader:
Reducing industrial wastesAchieving cleaner productionPreventing production of hazardous wastes Narrower:
Increasing industrial cooperation to control transboundary water pollutionIncreasing cooperation among enterprises on cleaner production technologyInforming about industrial development decisions affecting transboundary air pollution Facilitates:
Controlling transboundary air pollution Subjects:
Industry → Industry Societal Problems → Waste
Government → Government
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
