Chronology of Sustainable Development

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Chronology of Sustainable Development
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1972

• The term sustainable development is first used
  during the United Nations Conference on the Human
  Environment in Stockholm, Sweden.

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1980

• The interdependence of conservation and
  development is stressed in the publication World
  Conservation Strategy by the United Nations
  Environment Program, World Wide Fund for Nature,
  and IUCN-the World Conservation Union.

4
1987

• The publication Our Common Future, published by
  the United Nations World Commission on
  Environment and Development, calls upon the
  worlds nations to adopt the objective of
  sustainable development as the overriding goal
  and test of national policy and international
  cooperation.

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1992

• The Earth Summit, the United Nations Conference
  on Environment and Development, is held in Rio de
  Janeiro, Brazil. Participants develop Agenda 21,
  a program of action for sustainable development
  worldwide, the Rio Declaration on Environment and
  Development, and a statement of principles for
  the sustainable management of forests which is
  adopted by more than 178 governments.

6
1992

• The United nations General Assembly establishes
  the Commission on Sustainable Development, which
  meets for the first time in June 1993 in New
  York. It holds annual meetings in New York from
  this date on.

7
1997

• Heads of state from 70 countries meet at the
  United Nations to assess progress since the Rio
  Summit and to discuss future plans.