Including cleaner production guidelines in industry training programmes

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 international organizations should increase education, training and awareness activities relating to cleaner production, in collaboration with industry, academia and relevant national and local authorities.

1. Preventing production of hazardous wastes
2. Developing guidelines
3. Achieving cleaner production

1. Developing environmental education on transboundary air pollution
2. Cooperating with industry on guidelines of conduct for cleaner production

1. Establishing training centres on environmentally sound technologies

1. Unproductivity
2. Underproduction
3. Overproduction
4. Overeducation
5. Education