strategy
Providing technology and training for local environmental information services
Context:
Developed countries and relevant international organizations should cooperate, in particular with developing countries, to expand their capacity to receive, store and retrieve, contribute, disseminate, use and provide appropriate public access to relevant environmental and developmental information, by providing technology and training to establish local information services and by supporting partnership and cooperative arrangements between countries and on the regional or subregional level. 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:
Providing information servicesExpanding environmental management education and trainingProviding environmental information on the internetProviding training on environmental information technologyStrengthening local capacity to adapt appropriate technologies Facilitates:
InformingDeveloping local environmental health action plansImproving access to sustainable development information Facilitated by:
Funding scientific information networks on the environment Subjects:
Society → LocalSocial Activity → Services
Information → Information
Education → Training
Technology → Technology
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
