Ensuring national policies account for environmental effects

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.

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.

1. Realigning politics around ecology
2. Ensuring national economic policies support sustainable development
3. Ensuring accountability
4. Enhancing decision-making procedures
5. Developing sustainable development policy
6. Developing national environmental policy studies

1. Monitoring government policymaking for national environmental action plans
2. Integrating environment and development in decision-making
3. Developing physical environmental accounts

1. Regulating environmental protection
2. Promoting environmental accountability

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