strategy
Ensuring national policies account for environmental effects
Synonyms:
Ensuring decision-makers are accountable for environmental impacts Context:
National policies such as those relating to infrastructure and industry affect the environment. Resulting environmental effects have until recent years been more secondary to policy in importance. 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. Broader:
Ensuring accountabilityEnhancing decision-making proceduresDeveloping sustainable development policyDeveloping sustainable development policyEnsuring national economic policies support sustainable developmentRealigning politics around ecology Narrower:
Developing physical environmental accountsIntegrating environment and development in decision-makingMonitoring government policymaking for national environmental action plans Values:
IllIndecision Subjects:
Environment → Environment Policy-making → Policy
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
