Editing Agenda 21 (section)

===== Opposition =====
Agenda 21 fears have played a role in opposition to local government's efforts to promote resource and land conservation, build [[bike lane]]s, and construct hubs for [[public transportation]].<ref name="Kaufman_20120204"/> The non-profit group [[ICLEI]] – Local Governments for Sustainability USA – was targeted by anti-Agenda 21 activists.<ref name="Kaufman_20120204"/> In 2012, fears of Agenda 21 "went mainstream" when the [[Republican National Committee]] adopted a platform resolution stated that "We strongly reject the U.N. Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty."<ref>{{cite news|last=Jamison|first=Peter|title=Fears of Agenda 21 go mainstream in the Republican Party platform|url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/article1248666.ece|access-date=23 October 2012|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times|date=30 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103000416/http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/article1248666.ece|archive-date=3 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="Harman"/>

Several state and local governments have considered or passed motions and legislation opposing Agenda 21.<ref name=nyt /><ref name=HuffPost/><ref name="Harman"/><ref>{{cite web | last=Batheja | first=Aman | title=U.N.-Backed Agenda 21 Triggers Strong Reactions From Many in Texas | website=The Texas Tribune | date=August 28, 2012 | url=https://www.texastribune.org/2012/08/28/fears-un-backed-agenda-21-spark-anger-across-texas/ | access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref>  Most such bills failed, "either dying in committee, getting defeated on the statehouse floor or – in the case of [[Missouri]]'s 2013 bill – getting vetoed by the governor."<ref name="Harman"/> In [[Texas]], for example, broadly worded legislation that would prohibit any governmental entity from accepting from or granting money to any "nongovernmental or intergovernmental organization accredited by the United Nations to implement a policy that originated in the Agenda 21 plan" was defeated because it could have cut off funding for groups such as [[4-H]], the [[Boy Scouts of America]], and the Texas Wildlife Association.<ref name="Harman"/><ref>{{cite web | last1=Satija | first1=Neena | last2=McCrimmon | first2=Ryan | title=Conservative Lawmakers Target United Nations | website=The Texas Tribune | date=February 26, 2015 | url=https://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/26/conservative-lawmakers-continue-assault-un/ | access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref> In Arizona, a similarly sweeping bill was introduced in the [[Arizona State Legislature]] seeking to mandate that the state could not "adopt or implement the creed, doctrine, or principles or any tenet" of Agenda 21 and to prohibit the state "implementing programs of, expending any sum of money for, being a member of, receiving funding from, contracting services from, or giving financial or other forms of aid to" an array of sustainability organizations.<ref name="Harman"/> The bill, which was opposed by the state chamber of commerce and the mayor of [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], was defeated in 2012.<ref name="Harman"/> [[Alabama]] was one state that did adopt an anti-Agenda 21 law, unanimously passing in 2012 a measure to block "any future effort to 'deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to 'Agenda 21.'"<ref name="Harman"/>

In 2023, [[Tennessee]] enacted legislation to block the implementation of Agenda 21 and other programs “originating in, or traceable to, the United Nations or a subsidiary entity of the United Nations.”<ref>{{cite web | title=State of Tennessee Public Chapter No. 479 | url=https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0479.pdf | website=Tennessee Secretary of State | access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Sullivan | first=Kevin | title=Inside the Tennessee legislature, where a GOP supermajority reigns | newspaper=Washington Post | date=May 15, 2023 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/15/inside-tennessee-legislature-where-gop-supermajority-reigns/ | access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref>