Remediating ecological damage caused by industrial activity

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 identification of industrially based environmental disaster areas at the national and international levels and implementing strategies aimed at the rehabilitation of these areas.

1. Restoring environmental damage
2. Maintaining healthy ecosystems

1. Reducing industrial wastes

1. Reducing risk of ecoaccidents
2. Protecting against environmental hazards from industry
3. Developing industry

1. Ranking environmental problems for national environmental action plans
2. Integrating biodiversity concerns into liability mechanisms
3. Establishing environmental regulatory controls
4. Enhancing corporate environmental responsibility
5. Enabling cross-sectoral cooperation
6. Creating new opportunities in environmentally sound sectors

1. Ensuring continuous corporate environmental improvement

1. Overactivity
2. Inactivity
3. Disaster
4. Damage
5. Action