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

Facilitated by

  1. Using fiscal incentives in innovative financing
  2. Strengthening national policies to encourage technology transfer
  3. Strengthening national policies to encourage higher levels of foreign direct investment
  4. Strengthening bilateral aid programmes in support of sustainable development
  5. Reviewing measures to address debt problems of low and middle income countries
  6. Reviewing funding for implementing Agenda 21
  7. Reporting national financial plan commitments to implement Agenda 21
  8. Reinvesting military capacity in civil goals
  9. Providing financial resources for facilitating national capacity-building
  10. Providing development bank resources on favourable terms to implement Agenda 21
  11. Providing debt relief for the poorest countries pursuing structural adjustment
  12. Providing a supportive international and national economic climate for sustained economic growth
  13. Preparing national plans in developing countries for achieving sustainable development
  14. Monitoring implementation of Agenda 21 in respect of availability of financial resources
  15. Maximizing resources for implementing Agenda 21
  16. Increasing voluntary contributions to sustainable development through NGO channels
  17. Increasing overseas development aid
  18. Increasing aid to developing countries
  19. Exploring schemes for voluntary contributions to sustainable development
  20. Exploring new ways of generating new public and private financial resources for implementing Agenda 21
  21. Exploring new forms of debt relief including greater use of debt swaps
  22. Exploring feasibility of tradable permits
  23. Expanding scope of environmental funding to relevant programme areas in Agenda 21
  24. Ensuring predictability in flow of funds contributed by developed countries to achieve global environment benefits
  25. Ensuring new forms of conditionality are not introduced for environmental funding
  26. Ensuring new and additional resources for environmental funding on grant and concessional terms
  27. Encouraging universal participation in the Global Environment Facility
  28. Developing financial sector strategies for environmental protection
  29. Covering agreed incremental costs to implement Agenda 21
  30. Assisting poorest countries to implement Agenda 21
  31. Assessing costs and financing in developing countries to implement Agenda 21
  32. Addressing continuing debt problems of poorest heavily-indebted countries

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