Networking the environment and development arena


  • Networking for sustainable development
  • Facilitating networking on sustainable development information
  • Facilitating national and local networking on sustainable development information

Description

Facilitating partnership and communication between people, projects and organizations that are working to create and maintain a sustainable environment for the development of earth and humanity.

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 should facilitate and support national to local networking of information

Implementation

Some networks and communications services assumed a leadership role on Earth Summit issues and have continued monitoring UN conferences, keeping their members and subscribers up to date on UN activities in the environment and development field and discussing relevant technical and procedural matters through the Commission for Sustainable Development. These include the Malaysia-based Third World Network, the Uruguayan NGO Net, and the coalesced USA organizations – the International Working Group on Institutional Change, the US Citizens Network on Sustainable Development and the Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

The Regional Environmental Information Network of the Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP) promotes exchange of information to support strategies for collective preventative or remedial action.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) are leaders among research organizations creating electronic information services for sustainable development. Their two-year project Spinning the Web is to create a sustainable development information electronic network of expanded content and broader appeal to decision makers and people throughout the world. The planned outcome is a highly sophisticated, yet extremely accessible distributed network designed to draw a broader range of people into the web of information required for sustainable development action. Partnerships will be fostered with a core group of at least four organizations in different parts of the world, and alliances with an additional six, and possibly more, collaborating institutions.

The Dublin Declaration on Access to Environmental Information (15 September 2000) calls on countries to enhance networking and coordinating mechanisms, primarily in the form of consortia of key environmental information suppliers from both the governmental, non-governmental and private sectors to achieve a sustainable interactive information system as well as improving international cooperation.

Claim

  1. It is commonly accepted that health, environmental and social issues are complex subjects to address and are often interrelated to one another, as well as to other development and economic issues.

Narrower

  1. Sharing private sector information and experience on sustainable development
  2. Reorienting higher education towards sustainable development
  3. Registering environmental professionals
  4. Producing directory on sustainable development
  5. Participating in international sustainable city networks
  6. Networking trade and development NGOs
  7. Networking on sustainable energy
  8. Networking in regional development
  9. Networking global rural development
  10. Networking development research
  11. Improving UN networks for sustainable development
  12. Improving information exchange among national and international data centres and networks
  13. Identifying sustainable technology information gaps
  14. Facilitating exchange on training for sustainability
  15. Establishing networks for exchanging experience on farming and sustainable development
  16. Disseminating information on sustainable development
  17. Disseminating environmental information
  18. Developing international competence in population planning
  19. Creating environmental education partnerships with industry
  20. Connecting rural communities to the Internet


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