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1. Agenda 21 Timeline Benicia Tea Party Patriots A brief history:

2. June 1972 Stockholm, Sweden – “UN Conference on the Human Environment and United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)” • 26 Principles are established to meet aims • The principles, on their face presents aims that are worthwhile and should be desired by all nations

3. February 1976 Vancouver BC– “UN Conference on Human Settlements and Education” (Habitat I ) • OFFICIAL STATEMENT • “Public Control of land use is indispensible” The world is at the dawn of a new urban era, with most of humanity living in cities. UN-HABITAT is tackling rapid urbanization, escalating poverty, unemployment, poorly managed disasters, and the effects of climate change • FOCUS • Disparity between More Developed Regions (MDR) and Less Developed Regions (LDR) • Disparity between urban and rural area • Disparity between social class • Disparity in the field of education and human settlements • Methods and Objectives of Education • Male-female gaps • 21st Century Global and Universal Civilization • Exploitation of the Working Class • Cultural, Social and Economic Balance • Freedom from foreign Financial Models

4. February 1976 Vancouver BC– “UN Conference on Human Settlements and Education” (Habitat I ) • “HABITAT I” ESTABLISHED TRUST FUNDS: • The Slum Upgrading Facility for advisory services, the packaging of financial products, and referral functions to its clients. • The Experimental Reimbursable Seeding Operation providing seed money for pro-poor housing and related infrastructure projects. • The Water and Sanitation Trust Fund supports developing countries to achieve the international goal for water and sanitation in rapidly growing urban areas. It leverages investments from regional development banks and the World Bank. • The Palestinian Housing Fund to improve the living conditions of the Palestinian people and promote peace building

5. 1987 – UN Bruntland Report “Our Common Future” • Report Key Concepts: • The essential needs of the world's poor to which overriding priority should be given • The state of technology and social organization limitations on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs • Recognition of United Nations as the only intergovernmental organization with universal membership who should clearly be the locus for new institutional initiatives of a global character. • Popularized the term “Sustainable Development” • Governments should begin parallel resolutions in the respective governing bodies to re-orient and re-focus the mandates, programs, and budgets of key agencies to support sustainable development. • Governments should insist on much greater coordination and cooperation among them.

6. 1992 – U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, (The Rio Conference) • Presented action plan titled “AGENDA 21” to Conference. • Suggested alternate name is “Smart Growth” for Sustainable Development and Globalization • 2 Major areas are addressed – Equity & Economy • AGENDA 21 Equity Concept - “individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective” in the process of implementing Sustainable Development – Harvey Ruvin. • AGENDA 21 Economy Concept – a creation of international redistribution of wealth and the creation of public-private partnerships and “...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.” Maurice Strong • Sustainable Development and Globalization proposed implementation strategies require the surrender of unalienable rights.

7. 1993 President Clinton – Implements the Agenda 21 Initiative • EXECUTIVE ORDER 12852, 29 JUNE 1993 • Authorizes the establishment of the “Presidents Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)” • COUNCIL STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS: • Coordinated by the White House Office on Environmental Policy • Creates New Environmental Management System for the United States • Operates by Consensus which, when achieved, requires no voting • Forging of Partnerships with State, Local, Urban & Suburban Entities • Sustainable Development Targets assigned were Environment, Economy, Equity, Greenhouse Gas reduction and Participation in Global Forums • Ensure ‘Social Equity’ is integrated into all issues • FUNDING • Department of the Interior Budget • Other Federal authorizing Departments per legal statute

8. 1997 – Kyoto Protocols • The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a subcomponent of Agenda 21. • The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions • These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012. • Kyoto targets “Climate Change” by way of three market-based mechanisms • Emissions trading – known as “the carbon market“ • Clean development mechanism (CDM) (investment credit scheme) • Joint implementation (emission reduction projects) • The US Senate rejected the Kyoto Protocols and George Bush declined to support it post election

9. 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit • MEETING GOALS AND TARGETS: • Affirms the UN as the ”indispensible common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development.” • Goals: • Reduce Global Poverty by 2015 • Ban small arms and light weapons (think 2nd Amendment) • Ratification of outstanding treaties: • International Criminal Court Treaty • The Kyoto Protocol (Global Warming Treaty) • Convention on Biological Diversity • Convention on Elimination of All forms of discrimination against Women

10. 2010 United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) Bonn, Germany • Action Item: • ‘Setting the Agenda for Cancun UN Climate Change Conference in 2011’ • Recognition in Cancun that the job of governments is to turn the politically possible into the politically irreversible.” • Obama Actions in Support: • Executive Orders: • 13547 – Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts and Great Lakes and pursuant to the “UN Law of the Sea” Convention • Ocean beyond national limit is within scope of UN • Avoidance of ‘DeepWater Horizon’ -type incidents • Subject to Interagency Global Policy • 13575 – White House Rural Council – 16% of the American population is now subject to policies by Executive Departments: not the Congress of the United States.

11. Agenda 21 advocates a single Global Government Contravenes BTPP criteria FISCAL CONSERVATISM Federal, State and Local Taxes are used to: Fund development of UN Policies Fund advisors from International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) who actively guide the process per to UN criteria LIMITED GOVERNMENT Agenda 21 bypasses Constitutional processes-activities are not accomplished under US Constitutional Laws or Congress FREE MARKET Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) possess both Implementation and Regulatory Authority Choice of markets to address human problems are mandated by Government or by Non-Government entities (NGO’s) Conclusion: Why is BTPP interested in Agenda 21

12. UN Agenda 21 Source Documents 1972 Stockholm—Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.Print.asp?documentid=97&articleid=1503 1976 Vancouver—Conference of Human Settlements and Education http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0001/000189/018979eb.pdf http://whc.unesco.org/en/35 http://habitat.igc.org/vancouver/vp-intr.htm 1987 Brundtland Commission, Formerly World Commission on Environment and Development--United Nations General Assembly Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/42/ares42-187.htm http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment & Development---Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992---Agenda 21 http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/ http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm 1997 Kyoto Conference produced---Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1998 http://www.kyotoprotocol.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol 2000—Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 55/2 United Nations Millennium Declaration http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.pdf

13. UN Agenda 21 Source Documents Continued 2010 Bonn, Germany—UN Framework Convention on Climate Change http://www.globelaw.com/Climate/fcc.htm http://www.iisd.ca/process/climate_atm.htm http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2010/ Executive Orders 12852---1993-President’s Council on Sustainable Development-(Clinton) 13112---1999-Invasive Species—(Clinton) 13114---1999-Amendment to EO 12852 –(Clinton) 13122---1999-Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Southwest Border-(Clinton) 13547---2010-Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coast, and the Great Lakes. Memorandum—The Presidential POWER initiative: Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment.-(Obama) 13575---2011-Establishment of the White House Rural Council-(Obama) http://www.dceplanning.com/reports/ABAG_SmartGrowthRpt.pdf http://sovereignty.net/p/land/unproprts.htm http://clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/index.html http://www.wildlandsnetwork.org/about-us http://www.un.org/depts/los/index.htm http://www.cbd.int/convention/refrhandbook.shtml http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=iclei-home http://www.scribd.com/doc/6469921/Agenda-21-United-Nations-EXPOSED-Booklet http://americanpolicy.org/sustainable-development/agenda-21-in-one-easy-lesson.html/ http://www.sovereignty.net/ http://freedom21.org/