. Agenda 21 is a commitment program on a global scale. Approved at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, it urged local authorities to start a dialogue with their citizens, local social organizations and private companies to adopt a Local Agenda 21. Through consultations and consensual processes, local authorities must address civic, neighborhood, business and local industry organizations, and acquire the appropriate information to design the best strategy. The participatory process must reinforce in each house and each neighbor the awareness of the problems that sustainable development implies. www.benetusser.es/es/pagina/presentacion-agenda-21 The Benetússer City Council decided to face this responsibility and began its commitment in 2002 by signing the Aalborg Charter and becoming part of the Network of Valencian Municipalities towards Sustainabilityc whose link is below https://www.dival. is/xarcia
One of the objectives of the Local Agenda 21 processes, such as the one carried out by the Benetússer City Council, is to reinforce local democracy, in accordance with the principle of proximity or subsidiarity, which advocates decision-making at the local level. lowest suitable, so that they are as close as possible to the people affected. The aim, therefore, is to establish a direct relationship between the city council and the local population, not limiting itself only to the principles of representative democracy, but also articulating the necessary mechanisms to achieve authentic participatory democracy, the strategic axis of the processes of Local Agenda 21.