China's Administrative Center for Agenda 21 (ACCA21)

The Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21 (ACCA21) 　 　 The Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21 (ACCA21) was established in 1994 with the approval of the Central Government. ACCA21 is affiliated with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and, with regard to some functions, also operates under the leadership of the State Development Planning Commission (SDPC). In 1998, ACCA21 was merged with the China Innovation Centre for Life Science and additionally took over some functions from MOST. Its mission is to manage the day-to-day affairs and facilitate the implementation of China's Agenda 21 and its Priority Programme, to conduct policy and strategy research in the area of sustainable development providing policy support to government decision-making, to foster international cooperation and exchange in the area of sustainable development，to build a national information sharing network for sustainable development promoting information exchange and sharing，etc. Website: http://english.acca21.org.cn/html/introduction/introduction.html