Local Agenda 21 is the process of drawing up and implementing local sustainable development plans, with the local authority working in partnership with all sectors in the local community to achieve this.
Local Agenda 21 came from the United Nations Agenda 21 document agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Rio process had done much to foster the spirit of cooperation between different sectors by recognising the part all would have to play to make sustainable development a reality. The inclusion of a chapter on Local Agenda 21 in Agenda 21 reinforced this principle, with recognition of the important role local authorities and their communities would play. Agenda 21 also moved the debate on from consideration of environmental issues alone: sustainable development became the new paradigm to integrate and reconcile the often competing concerns of environmental, social and economic issues.
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