Providing public information on rural energy problems

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 governments at the appropriate level, with the support of relevant international and regional organizations, should enhance public awareness of rural energy problems, stressing the economic and environmental advantages of renewable energy sources.

1. Supplying public information
2. Sharing mutually beneficial ideas
3. Providing public access to environmental information
4. Exchanging experience on rural energy technologies
5. Ensuring sustainable energy in human settlements
6. Developing rural energy sources

1. Concealing environmental information

1. Problem
2. Misinformation
3. Information
4. Energy
5. Disinformation
6. Deformation