UPSC PRELIMS - 2017 - ENVIRONMENT - STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE 1972

With this video, we are beginning with a new series in which we will be covering in detail all the aspects related to environmental treaties, conventions, conferences, summits, protocols etc.

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE
or
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 5-16 June, 1972

Conference's motto: "Only one Earth" 

It was the UN's first major conference on international environmental issues, and marked a turning point in the development of international environmental politics.

The meeting agreed upon a declaration, called Stockholm Declaration, containing 26 principles concerning the environment and development.

The Stockholm Conference also led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in December 1972 to coordinate global efforts to promote sustainability and safeguard the natural environment.

The conference also produced the “Framework for Environmental Action,” an action plan containing 109 specific recommendations related to human settlements, natural-resource management, pollution, educational and social aspects of the environment, development, and international organizations.

Stockholm put the environment on the political agenda.
Internationally, that agenda would lead in 1987 to the Brundtland Commission and its famous definition of a sustainable society as one that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”