Improving financial resources and mechanisms for sustainable development

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.

Broader

Financing

Narrower

Reviewing sustainability of policies of international agencies and finance institutions

Increasing accountability of international financial institutions

Ensuring equitable access to international environmental funds

Facilitates

Financing sustainable development

Facilitated by

Reinvesting military capacity in civil goals

Increasing overseas development aid

Increasing aid to developing countries

Expanding scope of environmental funding to relevant programme areas in Agenda 21

Ensuring new forms of conditionality are not introduced for environmental funding

Encouraging universal participation in the Global Environment Facility

Developing financial sector strategies for environmental protection

Assessing costs and financing in developing countries to implement Agenda 21

Using fiscal incentives in innovative financing

Strengthening national policies to encourage technology transfer

Strengthening national policies to encourage higher levels of foreign direct investment

Strengthening bilateral aid programmes in support of sustainable development

Reviewing funding for implementing Agenda 21

Reporting national financial plan commitments to implement Agenda 21

Providing financial resources for facilitating national capacity-building

Providing development bank resources on favourable terms to implement Agenda 21

Providing debt relief for the poorest countries pursuing structural adjustment

Providing a supportive international and national economic climate for sustained economic growth

Preparing national plans in developing countries for achieving sustainable development

Monitoring implementation of Agenda 21 in respect of availability of financial resources

Maximizing resources for implementing Agenda 21

Increasing voluntary contributions to sustainable development through NGO channels

Exploring schemes for voluntary contributions to sustainable development

Exploring new ways of generating new public and private financial resources for implementing Agenda 21

Exploring new forms of debt relief including greater use of debt swaps

Exploring feasibility of tradable permits

Ensuring predictability in flow of funds contributed by developed countries to achieve global environment benefits

Ensuring new and additional resources for environmental funding on grant and concessional terms

Covering agreed incremental costs to implement Agenda 21

Assisting poorest countries to implement Agenda 21

Addressing continuing debt problems of poorest heavily-indebted countries

Value

Reference

Marcel Jeucken: Sustainable Finance and Banking: The financial sector and the future of the planet

Web link

Agenda 21

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #1: No Poverty

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Sustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(E) Emanations of other strategies

Subject

Commerce » Finance

Development » Sustainable development » Sustainable development

Development » Reform

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Jan 26, 2023