strategy

Funding cleaner technology research

Context:
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, according to their capacities and available resources and with the cooperation of the UN and other relevant organizations, and with industry, as appropriate, should significantly increase financial support for cleaner technology research and development programmes, including the use of biotechnology.
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 4: Quality EducationGOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure