1,200 Gather in Stockholm for Parley on Environment

Title

1,200 Gather in Stockholm for Parley on Environment

Description

1,200 delegates from 100 countries attended the UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment to create a body within the UN to deal with international environmental affairs, create a "declaration of principles" to acknowledge that all countries have a responsibility to preserve the environment, and to draft an "action plan" to prevent future environmental abuses.

Creator

Gladwin Hill

Publisher

The New York Times

Date

1972-06-05

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Citation

Gladwin Hill, “1,200 Gather in Stockholm for Parley on Environment,” Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College since 1965, accessed November 22, 2024, https://omeka.middlebury.edu/fyg/items/show/131.

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