Developing implementation mechanisms for international law on sustainable development

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 considering appropriate ways in which relevant international bodies, such as UNEP, might contribute towards the further development of such mechanisms.

1. Improving laws
2. Harmonizing international law
3. Developing international environmental law

1. Establishing reporting systems on implementation of international instruments for sustainable development
2. Developing integrated sustainable development law information service

1. Facilitating public access to justice in environmental matters

1. Reviewing priorities for future law making on sustainable development
2. Improving access of developing countries to information and expertise on sustainable development law

1. Unsustainable
2. Undeveloped
3. Underdevelopment
4. Overdevelopment
5. Nonimplementation
6. Lawfulness
7. Implementation
8. Development

1. Agenda 21