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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Protecting the atmosphere

Protecting the atmosphere

  • Maintaining atmospheric quality

Implementation

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.

Broader

Protecting global environment
Presentable
Improving
Yet to rate

Narrower

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Presentable
Controlling transboundary air pollution
Presentable
Reducing air pollution
Yet to rate
Reducing adverse atmospheric effects of transportation
Yet to rate
Reducing adverse atmospheric effects of resource development
Yet to rate
Reducing adverse atmospheric effects of industrial development
Yet to rate

Constrained by

Degrading the atmosphere
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Countering global warming
Unpresentable

Facilitated by

Observing Earth's atmosphere
Presentable
Developing ozone-kind products
Presentable

Problem

Degradation of the atmosphere
Unpresentable

Reference

Pitt, David and Nilsson, Sten: Protecting the Atmosphere: the climate change convention and its context
World Resources Institute: World Resources 1986

Web link

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #13: Climate ActionSustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral strategies
Subject
  • Development » Reform
  • Meteorology » Meteorology
  • Societal problems » Protection
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J0498
    DOCID
    12004980
    D7NID
    199933
    Last update
    May 20, 2022