Agenda 21, and especially its impact on Carbon County will be discussed during a meeting of the Lehighton 9/12 Project.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Mahoning Valley Ambulance Building, 902 Mill Road, Lehighton.Sandy Dellicker, president of the Lehighton 9/12 Project, said discussed will be whatyou/we can do to expose the implementation of Agenda 21 in your/our county and your/our municipality."If you have heard about sustainable Development, Smart Growth, Smart Meters, and a host of other buzz words, then you have been hearing about Agenda 21," Dellicker said.She added, "It is not a conspiracy theory, it is real and it is here!"According to the Agenda 21 Web site, the overarching objective of the project is to construct a coherent vision of sustainable development in the 21st century, which will contribute to the success of the Rio+20 conference.The project, funded by the European Commission - Directorate-General for Environment, aims to provide a high quality analytical input to the Rio+20 conference.The specific objectives of the project are the following:• Prepare a substantive contribution to the debate in the UNCSD in 2012, which takes stock of the changes having occurred since the Earth Summit in 1992 and provide a clear vision and way forward for the international community, national governments, partnerships and other stakeholders in implementing the sustainable development agenda in an integrated manner.• Construct a coherent vision on sustainable development in the 21st century and analyse feasible pathways to sustainability.• Synthesize analytical and applied policy work regarding menus of policy options for a more sustainable, green growth that consider the specific economic, social, environmental and institutional context of countries in different stages of economic development.The meeting is also for general purposes and is open to the public.