ABSTRACT
The UK takes its international reporting obligations relatively seriously. Its A21 response has been incorporated into a longer running environmental policy reporting exercise. This exercise is an attempt to integrate departmental performance and planning into a series of targets and reporting measures which themselves are innovative. Upon this structure has been placed further innovative mechanisms of awareness raising, policy integration and review that are external to central government. These form the essence of the A21 response and the beginnings of the sustainability transition.
