The local Agenda 21 process in Moray has been progressed through the Moray Council's LA21 Team which has looked at a number of In House actions and externally through the Moray Sustainability Forum.  The Council adopted an 8 point strategy in 1996 to promote sustainable development which was reviewed in 2001 and developed into a vision and series of actions which was finalised and published in early 2002.  The Council has placed sustainable development at the heart of the Council's decision-making through the introduction in some sections of a committee report sustainability checklist.

Click here to view the Strategy.

The Moray Sustainability Forum was set up in 1997.  It is a group of organisations from all over Moray with the agree mission statement of:

"The purpose of the Moray Sustainability Forum is to form a mechanism which encourages and enables participants to work collectively for the long term benefit of Moray.  The forum will play its part in shaping the future of Moray by acting in Partnership, agreeing common strategy, sharing knowledge and raising local awareness about long term issues".

The Forum lead by REAP (Rural Environment Action Programme), are currently considering how to progress their activities which may be through the formation of a series of sub-groups to look at key sustainability issues in more detail.  The formation of a series of sub-groups would allow a rationalisation of a number of existing groups and would provide a focus for promoting sustainable development in Moray in the future.  For more information on the Moray Sustainability Forum contact Rod Lovie at REAP on (01542) 888070.

Agenda 21, adopted the United Nations in Rio during the summer of 1992, is a comprehensive programme of action to be implemented into the twenty first century.  Amongst other things, the programme covers issues such as poverty, consumption, population trends, health, environmental degradation, gender and equity.

"Underlying Agenda 21 is the notion that humanity has reached a defining moment in its history.  We can continue our present policies which serve to deepen the economic divisions within and between countries; which increase poverty, hunger, sickness and illiteracy; and which are causing the continued deterioration of the ecosystem on which we depend.

Or we can chance course... No nation can achieve this on its own... Together we can, in a global partnership for sustainable development.

The time however, is now approaching where more people could and should become involved in the process.  This site is currently being reviewed and updated.  Further information will be available soon.