50 years of the Stockholm Convention

04 Jun 2022 50 years of the Stockholm Convention

50 years of the Stockholm Convention- Today Current Affairs

• Stockholm+50 is being held in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference).
• This international meeting is being organized by the United Nations General Assembly.
• It is being held at a time when the world is still facing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and waste, loss of nature and biodiversity, among other issues, 50 years after the Stockholm Declaration. It is a threat to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• A sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will also be one of the agenda points.

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About Stockholm Conference:

• The ‘United Nations Conference on the Human Environment’ was held in Stockholm, Sweden from 5 June to 16 June 1972.
• It was the first such worldwide conference on Earth’s environment, and its theme was ‘Only One Earth’.
• The conference culminated in the Stockholm Declaration, which included environmental principles and an action plan with recommendations for environmental policy.

The conference had three dimensions : The Hindu Analysis

• The participating countries agreed not to “harm each other’s environment or areas outside their national jurisdiction”.
• An action plan to study the threat to the Earth’s environment was prepared.
• An international body named ‘United Nations Environment Program’ (UNEP) was established to establish cooperation between countries.

Significance and Outcome of Stockholm Conference : The Hindu Analysis

• Till the year 1972, there was no ‘Environment Ministry’ in any country in the world.
• Representatives of ‘Norway’ returned from the conference to ‘establish a ministry for the environment’.
• India established its ‘Ministry of Environment and Forests’ in 1985.

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