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On 8 September 2000, following a three-day Millennium Summit of world leaders gathered in New York at the headquarters of the United Nations, the UN General Assembly adopted some 60 goals regarding peace; development; environment; human rights; the vulnerable, hungry, and poor; Africa; and the United Nations which is called Millennium Declaration (Resolution 55/2). [1]
The idea of the Earth Charter originated in 1987, by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev as members of The Club of Rome, when the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development called for a new charter to guide the transition to sustainable development.
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and countries, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for coordinating the actions of member states. [2]
Laudato si ' (Praise Be to You) is the second encyclical of Pope Francis, subtitled "on care for our common home". [1] In it, the Pope criticizes consumerism and irresponsible economic development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take "swift and unified global action". [2]
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, during June 5–16, 1972.. When the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene the 1972 Stockholm Conference, taking up the offer of the Government of Sweden to host it, [1] UN Secretary-General U Thant invited Maurice Strong to lead it as Secretary-General of the Conference, as the Canadian diplomat ...
Between 3 and 14 June 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) met in Rio De Janeiro to reaffirm and build on the UN Conference on the Human Environment. [19] Given that the Stockholm Conference had previously set the standard for future international environmental conferences, the Rio Declaration adopted three ...
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, often shortened to Rio Declaration, was a short document produced at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit. The Rio Declaration consisted of 27 principles intended to guide countries in future sustainable development.
The Australian economist David Throsby argued in 2016 that the convention, as a legally binding treaty with many signatories, has achieved much more than the Sustainable Development Goals to advance cultural and economic development in a sustainable context. Reading the national reports on the implementation of the convention, he found that ...