Estratègies per al desenvolupament sostenible - Generalitat de ...

Early in 2001, the Dutch Cabinet established an interdepartmental body,guided by a ministerial group led by the Prime Minister, to develop a NationalStrategy for Sustainable Development. This group decided that the governmentwould first publish an overview of sustainable development policies on fivesubjects (population, climate, water, biodiversity and developing an economybased on know-how), indicating which dilemmas would influence further policydebate over the next decade. Furthermore, all policy areas should be embeddedwithin the notion of sustainable development, and experiments will be startedto apply the integration of economic, socio-cultural and environmental aspectsof major government investments. Each ministry has been requested to givean overview of its contribution to sustainable development in its annual budgetto be discussed in Parliament. Selected indicators will be used to show whetherThe Netherlands is moving towards sustainable development, with targetsset for the next 5–10 years. The Cabinet decided to start the process ofreviewing the strategy in public, while making an inventory of the many initiativesof municipalities, provinces, business and citizens which was to be submittedto Parliament in spring 2002. The process to prepare a revised strategy wasstarted with the aim that the next government (following elections in May 2002)would continue the process.Source: OECD-UNDP (2002), Sustainable Development Strategies. A Resource Book, Earthscan,London, p. 37-38.134