Assessing impact of environmental training programmes on productivity, health, safety and environment

Countries should enhance the ability to gain access to, analyse and effectively use available knowledge and information on environment and development. Existing or established special training programmes should be strengthened to support information needs of special groups.

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 the impact of these programmes on productivity, health, safety and employment should be evaluated.

1. Increasing training for sustainable development
2. Implementing environmental health strategy
3. Expanding environmental management education and training

1. Training health workers
2. Protecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment
3. Developing environmental education on transboundary air pollution
4. Developing effective health training policies

1. Unproductivity
2. Safety
3. Health
4. Counterproductivity