Important Reports and Summits regarding the environment

1. Limits to Growth 1972

1.1. Argued that in a world of finite resources and ever-increasing demands on such resources, driven by increasing consumption and growing population, there was a need for radical changes to avert a global catastrophe in the second half of the twenty-first century.

2. UN Stockholm Conference 1972

2.1. the first global conference to deal with environmental issues comprehensively and led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

3. Brundtland Report (1987)

3.1. positioned sustainable development at the core of the global environmental agenda, defining it as: ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’

3.1.1. Famous quote by Indira Ghandi "Poverty is the greatest polluter"

4. Creation of IPCC - 1988

4.1. established by WMO and UNEP

4.1.1. body which is at the forefront of pushing for ecological modernization

5. Creation of World Comission on Environment and Development (UN) - 1983

6. Earth Summit - UNCED Rio 1992

6.1. The conference deployed the language of sustainable development to advance an international movement to manage the global environment, linking environmental degradation with poverty and over-consumption.

6.1.1. Adoption of Agenda 21

7. Rio +20 UN on S.D - 2012

7.1. adoption of 'green economy'

7.1.1. publication of Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication