Sharing of environmental education costs by local communities with richer assisting poorer communities

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 promoting conditions where a larger share of the cost is borne by local communities, with rich communities assisting poorer ones.

1. Tackling poverty through environmental health measures
2. Reorienting education towards sustainable development
3. Improving community capacity for environmental education

1. Giving urban children practical ecological experience
2. Expanding environmental management education and training
3. Developing local environmental health action plans
4. Developing broad environmental education

1. Supporting debt-for-education swaps
2. Securing educational funds from private donors
3. Facilitating low or no-cost use of mass media for education

1. Lifting restrictions on private schooling

1. Overeducation
2. Nonlocal
3. Education