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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 of 1972, or the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, was the first United Nations declaration on the global environment. It consists of 26 principles and led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which laid the foundation for future global environmental ...
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.
Negotiations over the years have aimed to protect forests, biodiversity and the climate. Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty ImagesIn 1972, acid rain was destroying trees. Birds were dying from DDT ...
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference), an international conference convened under United Nations auspices, was held in Stockholm, Sweden. The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration) was adopted by the United Nations.
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.
Following the Stockholm Intergovernmental Conference in 1972, creation of international environmental agreements proliferated. [5] MEAs were popularized by the United Nations, the majority of MEAs have been implemented since the 1972 at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference). [6]
In 1972 at the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme called the Vietnam War an ecocide. [136] Others, including Indira Gandhi from India and Tang Ke, the leader of the Chinese delegation, also denounced the war in human and environmental terms, calling for ecocide to be an ...