Agenda 21
(Parts 1 & 2)

Production Co: WTN, TVE

Producer: Jennifer Wilson

Year: 1994

Genre: Documentary

Region: World

Duration: (13 x 26’)
{Part 1 – 234’ & Part 2 – 100’}

Language: English

As the successor to WTN’s best-selling “Earthfile” series, “Agenda 21” offers viewers a popular treatment of topical environment and development issues.  The new series takes its name from Agenda 21 - the agreement signed by over 180 world leaders at the historic Rio Earth Summit in 1992, setting out a blueprint for sustainable development in the 21st century.  Using this as a framework to explore what sustainable development means in practice, Agenda 21’s television magazine format accommodates an exciting mix of topics within each episode; natural history stories and human rights violations; items on new science and technology breakthroughs developing into state-of-the-art investigative reporting. 

Examples of the stories in the 13 episodes of Agenda 21 are;

§      the rehabilitation of koala bears following the devastation caused by bush fires in Australia;

§      how the tsetse fly is helping to regulate cattle farming in Kenya;

§      the use of slave labour to build new roads and railways in Burma;

§      the dangers of in-breeding among lions in South Africa;

§      how Mexico City is overtaxing its water supply;

§      the not-so-slow destruction of Egypt’s pyramids;

§      how mothers are organising to fight the Mafia in southern Italy;

§      the controversial water pipeline Libya is building across the desert.