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The Claim

Agenda 21 is a United Nations action plan on sustainable development.

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The Short Version

UN and other institutional records identify Agenda 21 as a UN-adopted programme or plan of action for sustainable development from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Describing it as a United Nations action plan is accurate. The main caveat is that it is voluntary and non-binding, not a treaty.

Caveats

  • Agenda 21 is a non-binding programme of action, not an enforceable international treaty.
  • It was adopted at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development; later UN agendas, such as the 2030 Agenda, are separate documents.
  • Political criticism of Agenda 21 does not change the basic factual description of what the document is.

The Receipts

  1. Agenda 21

    United Nations

  2. Agenda 21 (full text PDF)

    United Nations

  3. Agenda 21: Programme of Action for Sustainable Development, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Statement of Forest Principles; the final text of agreements negotiated by Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3–14 June 1992

    UNESCO

  4. Products of the 1992 Earth Summit

    United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  5. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

    United Nations

  6. Agenda 21: Programme of Action for Sustainable Development (reference within IPCC library)

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

  7. The Archives - Organization of American States

    Organization of American States

  8. Agenda 21 | Environmental Sciences | Research Starters

    EBSCO

  9. A Guide to Agenda 21

    IDRC Digital Library

  10. Agenda 21 - Chapter 1: Preamble

    UN Documents (un-documents.net)

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