Using school children as community focal points for environmental information

Agenda 21 recommends mobilizing communities through schools and local health centres so that children and their parents become effective focal points for sensitization of communities to environmental issues.

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. Offering environmental health studies for young people
2. Developing community-based environmental information systems

1. Providing public information on transport sustainable for health and environment
2. Providing public access to environmental information
3. Expanding role of children and youth in sustainable development

1. Misinformation
2. Information
3. Disinformation
4. Deformation
5. Community
6. Anticommunity