Assessing costs and financing to ensure integrated and adequate provision of environmental infrastructure

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 estimates that annual technical assistance requirements for its settlement infrastructure environmental programmes would be about US$ 50 million; US$ 3 million would be needed to strengthen international institutions.

1. Integrating environment performance indicators with financial information
2. Assessing costs
3. Investigating-Discovering

1. Resourcing biodiversity conservation
2. Providing environmental infrastructure for human settlements
3. Ensuring full cost recovery for infrastructure services
4. Creating coherent local infrastructure solutions

1. Implementing economic appraisal for proposed development activities

1. Integration