Chitta - AGENDA 21

AGENDA 21

A UNITED NATIONS

GLOBAL PROGRAM

FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

AN ANALYSIS

by Julian Chitta

2012

Copyright 2012 by Julian Chitta.

of the middle class, involve high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, home

appliances , air conditioning and the

suburban housing congestions are

simply not sustainable, and shall be

eliminated , for the greater benefit of

the entire planet.

(Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UNs 1992 Earth Summit)

1987 The Brundtland Commission proposes in Hague, Holland.

a set of measures for a sustainable social and economic world development, by the Norwegian lady diplomat, Gro

Harlem Brundtland, (born in 1939), the Vice president of the World Socialist Party.

1992 The Rio de Janeiro Earth summit, names Maurice Strong,

( born in 1929), a Canadian businessman and diplomat who held the UNs position of Assistant General Secretary, the

leader of that Summit. A staunch supporter of the ideas proposed by the Gro Harlem Brundtland Commission, he

established the Agenda 21 Act. Maurice Strong is now a

resident of China, living in Beijing.

The 1,000 page Agenda 21 Act is based on a Report from the Bruntland Commission, establishing a set of strategic goals for sustainable development. The 178 leaders who participated, including the USA President, George H. W. Bush, signed the Act

1993 President Bill Clinton issues the Executive Order 12852

Establishing the Presidents Council on Agenda 21 Act for

Sustainable Development

1997 At a Summit in Peru, the UNs Earth commission met to review the progress of Agenda 21accomplishments, where

it was concluded that its goals have been achieved only

at a level of 1.0%

2002 At the ten year mark from the adoption of the Agenda 21,

a UN Summit evaluated the progress of achieving Agenda

21 goals as unsatisfactory, at a 5.0% level.

2007 The 15-year anniversary of signing of the Agenda 21 Act

marked a 10.0% success in achieving the original goals,

selecting the United States as proving ground for the

implementation of the sustainable development aims.

2011 President Obama issued the Executive Order 13575 and

established the White House Rural Council, to accelerate

the integration of the American agriculture into the Agenda

21 program.

2012 The 20-year mark since the adoption of the Agenda 21 Act,

produced a review in which the global acceptance of that

program seemed to lose substantial ground. The UN goals

have been reached at a level of only 12.0%, fact which did

create alarm among its supporters, especially when the UN

Earth Commission noted resistance to its stated goals.

Most of the Third World leaders signed up in the hope that

t he Agenda 21 program would allocate them an endless supply of money, to implement it. But after more than 10 years, they cooled down considerably their enthusiasm when they did not see any financial benefits. At this time, in 2913, many of them resist the Agenda 21 provisions

calling it a pact of destruction for small, poor countries.

S T R E N G T H E N I N G T H E R O L E O F M A J O R G R O U P S

INTRODUCTION

During the June 1992 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the UN

invited some 13 kings, 64 presidents, 3 chancellors, and a score of generals that were heads of government in several member nations, for a total of 177 participants.

That summit, organized and sponsored under the auspices of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, issued a plan of action related to sustainable global development, for the 21 st century, known as Agenda 21.

While the rest of the world discounted the event as another big, bureaucratic get-together by the UN brass and their clients, local journalists, in Brazil, and in the neighboring Argentina, studied all the workings of that summit, publishing ample articles, not always complimentary to the address of the UN Division for Economic Development.

Such a journalist, Joaquin Beller, with A Gazeta of Rio de Janeiro, analyzed in detail the results of that summit, which did produce a comprehensive blueprint for global actions to be taken by all member nations, in every field of human activity, educational, economic, politic and cultural, to protect the environment.

At the end of the conference an ample document, the Agenda 21 Act was published. Some journalists affirmed that the document was meant for public consumption, while certain parts were kept out for the reason that they contained sensitive confidential matters.

Rodolfo Guzman, an editor for the Ambito Financiero of Buenos Aires mentioned in an editorial that the ambitions of the UN brass and those of some world leaders, would do more damage to the environment, through Agenda 21 than what would happen if no action would be taken at all. He quoted several known scientists who proved, quite well, that the planet Earth has the capacity to heal its wounds, without the participation from the top down, of those in power.

Regardless the position taken by the people who witnessed the

Agenda 21 Summit, there are a lot of innuendos and accusation, aimed at the hidden agenda, as opposed to the public agenda.

The Act itself consists in 40 chapters divided along 4 sections, each with specific goals and means to measure the progress:

Section I Social and Economic Dimensions

Section II Conservation and Management of World Resources

Section III Strengthening the Role of Major Groups

Section IV Means and Policies for Implementation

An annex established certain periods of time for the actual review of Agenda 21 results, after five years, ten and twenty years, from 1992.

No matter how you look at the Act, you should be glad that someone in the world is trying to promote peace, collaboration and economic development for the benefit of the entire mankind. (Please insert here, animals and plants, which as forms of life, are deemed to deserve representation among UN nation members!)

But by judging the UN's past performance in the area of peace-keeping and marshaling resources to the starving needy of the world no one should have illusions that such an undertaking, like the one promoted by Agenda 21, would not end up just as a money shredder or an exercise in frustration, as similar attempts did before. (Think of the Kyoto Protocol, which tried to penalize industrialized nations for the sin of having a higher standard of living than the developing countries, the darlings of UN bureaucrats.)

At this very moment there are several places in the world where the UN peace-keepers try to prevent genocide and mass murders, on a handicapped position. Christians are still slaughtered in Africa,

democracy activists are still shot in Syria and in other countries

Places in the world where UN troops try to keep peace.