Paper I · 4 Environment & Disaster Management · 4.8 Climate and environmental treaties

4.8.1 Stockholm 1972 to Rio 1992: evolution of global environmental governance

The Stockholm Conference of 1972 put the environment on the world agenda and created UNEP; twenty years later the Rio Earth Summit joined environment with development and launched the main global environmental treaties.

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Key terms

  • Stockholm Conference
  • UNEP
  • World Environment Day
  • Brundtland Commission
  • Our Common Future
  • Earth Summit
  • Rio Declaration
  • Agenda 21
  • Rio conventions
  • Johannesburg 2002
  • Rio+20
  • The Future We Want
  • precautionary principle
  • polluter pays

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