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Summary:
To seek full use and continuing qualitative improvement of funding mechanisms to be utilized for the implementation of Agenda 21.

To help to ensure the access, in particular of developing countries, to scientific and technological information, including information on state-of-the-art technologies;

To promote, facilitate, and finance, as appropriate, the access to and the transfer of environmentally sound technologies and corresponding know-how, in particular to developing countries, on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed, taking into account the need to protect intellectual property rights as well as the special needs of developing countries for the implementation of Agenda 21;

To facilitate the maintenance and promotion of environmentally sound indigenous technologies that may have been neglected or displaced, in particular in developing countries, paying particular attention to their priority needs and taking into account the complementary roles of men and women;

To support endogenous capacity-building, in particular in developing countries, so they can assess, adopt, manage and apply environmentally sound technologies. This could be achieved […]

To promote long-term technological partnerships between holders of environmentally sound technologies and potential users. Agenda 21, Chapter 34, para. 34.14, sub-paras (a)-(e)

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