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Local Agenda/Action 21
Local Agenda 21 (an agenda for the 21st century) was an important agreement reached at the United Nations global conference on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro
in 1992.
UNCED Rio '92
United Nations Conference on Environment & Development Rio de Janerio June 1992
WSSD Johannesburg '02
The United Nations World
Summit On Sustainable Development (WSSD) took place from August 23rd to September 4th 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 years after the Rio Conference on Environment and Development. This page provides information about the background to the WSSD, the organisations and meetings which worked towards the Summit and links for websites which carry further information and reports relating to it.
Local Information For Sustainable Communities
Directory of Environmental
Information for Sustainable Communities in Cork.
Sustainable Development aims to achieve a good quality of life in a good quality
environment. Resource use and waste management are balanced to retain the
potential of the environment to sustain future generations and their needs.
Sustainable Communities live in harmony with their environment such that the
needs of future generations are not compromised by the negative effects of their
lifestyle, activities and resource use.
How Sustainable Is Your Lifestyle?
Ecological Footprints are 'accounting tools' which can be used to measure human impact on the natural world.
All activities require the use of various types of finite natural resources, and
these can be converted into land- and water-area equivalents. An Ecological
Footprint is a measure of how much productive land and water an individual, a
city, a country, or humanity requires to produce all the resources it consumes
and to absorb all the waste it generates, using prevailing technology. This land
could be anywhere in the world.
Any category of human consumption can be translated into areas of productive
land required to provide resources and assimilate waste products. The ecological
footprint is a measure of how sustainable our life-style choices are. These
choices include housing, transport, food, energy and water consumption, other
non-consumptive goods and waste disposal. Ecological Footprints are 'accounting
tools' which can be used to measure human impact on the natural world.
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