Ensuring local authorities use environmentally sound building materials

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 calls upon local authorities to play a pioneering role in promoting the increased use of environmentally sound building materials and construction technologies, e.g. by pursuing an innovative procurement policy.

1. Increasing local autonomy of government biodiversity conservation programmes
2. Developing construction materials industry
3. Constructing sustainably

1. Utilizing indigenous building material
2. Recycling building materials
3. Developing inexpensive building materials
4. Acquiring low-cost building supplies

1. Including environmental management in activities of local authorities
2. Developing local environmental health action plans
3. Creating databases on the environmental impacts of building materials

1. Unused
2. Underuse
3. Nonlocal
4. Abuse