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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 ...
The Stockholm Declaration had a clear impact on subsequent international environmental treaties, as it was the first major international treaty that framed environmental issues as global issues. Principle 21, which outlines states' sovereign rights to exercise in their territories and their responsibilities to prevent transboundary harm, serves ...
The First Earth Summit, also known as the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE), also known as the Stockholm Conference was the first global conference to address environmental issues. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5–16, 1972.
Maurice Strong, who headed the Stockholm conference and an advocate of environmental mega conferences, believes that the ‘process is the policy’; [26] that mega conferences are ‘one contribution to a much larger process of societal and institutional change, rather that one-off, isolated events’. [27]
The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration) was adopted by the United Nations. The United Nations Environment Programme is established; The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act becomes law in the United States. It is a federal law that sets up the basic U.S. system of ...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [1] [2] It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972.
The report sought to recapture the spirit of the Stockholm Conference which had introduced environmental concerns to the formal political development sphere. Our Common Future placed environmental issues firmly on the political agenda; it aimed to discuss the environment and development as one single issue.
The conference also approved an environmental fund and an 'action program,' which involved 200 specific recommendations for addressing such problems as global climate change, marine pollution, population growth, the dumping of toxic wastes, and the preservation of biodiversity. A permanent environment unit was established for coordinating these ...