The United States is a signatory to Agenda 21, but since Agenda 21 is a non-binding statement of intent and not a treaty, the U.S. Senate has not had a formal debate or vote on it. It is therefore not considered a law within the meaning of Article 6 of the United States Constitution. President George H. Bush was one of 178 heads of government who signed the final text of the agreement at the 1992 Earth Summit,[17] and the same year, MPs Nancy Pelosi, Eliot Engel and William Broomfield spoke in support of U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 353 and supported the implementation of Agenda 21 in the United States. [16] [19] The President`s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) was established in 1993 by an executive mandate and expressly mandated to recommend to the President a national action plan for sustainable development. The PCSD is made up of government and industry leaders as well as environmental, labour and civil rights organizations. The PCSD presented the President with its report “Sustainable America: A New Consensus” in early 1996. In the absence of a cross-sector consensus on achieving sustainable development in the United States, the PCSD was designed to make recommendations for the implementation of Agenda 21. [Citation required] The Johannesburg Implementation Plan, adopted at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development, reaffirmed the Organization`s commitment to the full implementation of Action 21 and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and other international agreements. [Citation required] Back to square one To be sure of the adoption of Agenda 21 in 1992 at the so-called Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), it was announced as a turnkey agreement, the first global effort increasingly seen as an emerging environmental crisis.
In a semi-official 1993 book in which he explained the plan, Daniel Sitarz enthusiastically described it as “a document of hope,” a “comprehensive plan for humanity that it can use to forge its way to the next century by moving more gently to earth. Since its global programs are implemented worldwide, it will ultimately have an impact on all human activity on our planet. This monumental historic agreement proposes profound and dramatic changes in human society. Finally, the far right had sounded the alarm about all the international agreements and controls that date back to the League of Nations at the beginning of the 20th century and even before the end. In fact, a patriotic site, Sovereignty.net, produced a “chronology of global governance” that began in 1891 and included financial pacts, contracts, regional and international associations and, of course, Agenda 21. In Carroll County, MD., the county`s five commissionaires were removed from office to support the plan. In Missoula, Mount., police had to be called in to quell a riot over the payment of taxes to an organization that was to help implement the organization. And in Albemarle County, Va., the board of directors stopped paying these taxes and even withdrew from a corresponding national agreement. In Missoula, Mount., police had to be called to calm a government meeting in December 2012, during which about $1,200 in fees were discussed for ICLEI. In Albemarle County, Va., in 2012, the Board of Directors suspended maturing payments to ICLEI and also withdrew its support for a national climate change agreement.
In Springboro, Ohio, Community City School District in 2013, the ACLU threatened to take action when officials proposed a “controversial thematic policy” requiring sustainable development students to read Agenda 21 conspiracy theories. “They predicted that 90% of the population would be murdered by abortion and that life would be aborted by disease, famine, wars, economic destruction, industry, technology, vaccines and medicines that cause disease and slow death,” she writes.