Ethics and Agenda 21: Moral Implications of a Global Consensus

About this book

The Earth Summit held at Rio in June 1992 exactly twenty years after the historic Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment gave the world perhaps its clearest signal yet that the future of our planet and the maintenance of its critical life support systems have reached a point where they must now be addressed by the highest levels of government. Agenda 21 lays out the tasks. It is now up to the world community to move beyond the Rio consensus to the commitment necessary for implementation.