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Mahesh

04/06/22 07:32 AM IST

50 years since Stockholm conference

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  • The conference, Stockholm+50, was held recently to commemorate 50 years since the first meeting held in the Swedish capital when the world initially confronted the idea that development needs to be environmentally sustainable.
Stokholm Conference 
  • The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between June 5 to June 16, 1972.
  • It was the first such worldwide convergence on planetary environment, with the theme ‘Only One Earth’.
  • It resulted in the Stockholm Declaration which contained principles and an Action Plan containing recommendations for environmental policy.
Source -PIB 

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