UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AFTER THE RIO DEJANEIRO OF 1992: IT’S IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Abstract

Although the environment is as old as nature, the need to protect the environment had a relatively late beginning in the world. The incessant global technological and economic advancement attracted human interactions and therefore human attention to the global environment. The most significant starting point that provided a benchmark for internationalconcern on the environment was the United Nations Inter-Government Conference on human environment held in Stockholm between 5th–16thof June 1972. The Declaration on the Human Environment also known as the Stockholm Declaration set out the principles for various international environmental issues, including human rights, natural resources management, pollution prevention and the relationship between the environment and development. The highlight of this Conference was the setting up of the Brundtland Commission, which pioneered the sustainable development campaign which produced the basis for the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janerio, on the 3rd-14thof June, 1992 . Since this unprecedented conference, other conferences had taken place in the quest to address environmentally protection internationally. These conferences will be x-rayed with the intention to highlight their impacts so far on the global environmental protection.