What were the outcomes of the Stockholm Conference?

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE), also known as the Stockholm Conference of 1972 is one of the first major international conferences on environment.

After serious discussions about factors that affect the environment like population growth, and advancing technology, the UN came up with the Declaration on the Human Environment, and the Action Plan for Human Environment.

The action plan contained 109 specific recommendations aimed at achieving its goals. The conference presented environment as a human right. Every human has the right to clean and healthy environment. It talked about the responsibility of humans to manage wildlife and the ecosystem.

 

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