FantasticSearch

Awareness-raising The Community emphasises the importance of communication, information, education and training as a means of stimulating awareness of sustainable development issues and promoting behavioural changes in all sectors of society. It will increase its efforts to make Community citizens more aware of and more informed about sustainable development issues. The priority objectives of the Community shall be:

(a) to make information on the state of the environment and on the implementation of Community environmental legislation accessible;

(b) to promote the integration of the sustainable development concept into Community education and training programmes;

(c) to encourage environmental education and training at all relevant levels, inter alia in order to contribute to changing individual behaviour toward more sustainable patterns;

(d) to make optimum use of the system for the evaluation and appropriate dissemination on a continuous basis of the results of LIFE projects, both in the area of nature protection and in other areas of the environment;

(e) to collect and disseminate widely information and knowledge concerning the link between the state of the environment and human health;

(f) further to promote green housekeeping for the Community's own institutions, and to facilitate the exchange of best practices and access to and dissemination of information in this area as widely as possible;

(g) to promote close cooperation between the Commission and the Member States in the field of environmental communication and information; to develop a Community communication strategy in cooperation with the Member States, inter alia by taking advantage of existing cooperation initiatives;

(h) to help consumers take environmental considerations into account through eco-labelling and the provision of environmental information on products, including chemicals;

(i) to encourage providers of financial services, such as banks and insurance companies, to integrate environmental considerations in their operations.