Looking Through Palme’s Vision for the Global Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Anna Sundström
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
International Action ◽  
Stockholm Conference

Olof Palme, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, underlined the importance of a firm global response to the growing environmental crisis in his 06 June 1972 address to the first UN Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) held in Stockholm. He prophetically observed: “it is absolutely necessary that concerted, international action is undertaken . . . solutions will require far-reaching changes in attitudes and social structures”. Almost 50 years later, it is painfully clear that the necessary changes have not taken place and that time is now even more limited to make the necessary, far-reaching changes. How can the conclusions from the Stockholm Conference and ideas envisioned by Olof Palme can guide us into a better common greener future?

Looking Through Palme’s Vision for the Global Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sundström
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
International Action ◽  
Stockholm Conference

Olof Palme, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, underlined the importance of a firm global response to the growing environmental crisis in his 06 June 1972 address to the first UN Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) held in Stockholm. He prophetically observed: “it is absolutely necessary that concerted, international action is undertaken … solutions will require far-reaching changes in attitudes and social structures”. Almost 50 years later, it is painfully clear that the necessary changes have not taken place and that time is now even more limited to make the necessary, far-reaching changes. How can the conclusions from the Stockholm Conference and ideas envisioned by Olof Palme can guide us into a better common greener future?

The development of international environmental law

1977 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Birnie
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
First Principle ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Stockholm Conference

The first principle adopted by the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 (hereafter referred to as UNCHE) proclaimed that “Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of quality which permits a life of dignity and well-being and bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations”.If international society sets as its objective the protection, preservation and even the enhancement of the existing global environment then the development of laws and standards ensuring the acceptance of the necessary obligations and their enforcement is the sine qua non of their achievement.

International Institutions and the Environmental Crisis: A Look Ahead

1972 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Kay ◽  
Eugene B. Skolnikoff
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
International Issue ◽  
Surrounding Areas

In the industrialized northern hemisphere we are assaulted daily with evidence of the deteriorating quality of the human environment: Rivers are closed to fishing because of dangerous levels of contamination; the safety of important foods is challenged; the foul air that major urban areas have been forced to endure is now spreading like an inkblot into surrounding areas. Lack of early concern about the implications for the environment of the widespread application of modern technology has allowed the problem to grow rapidly into a critical domestic and international issue.

The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment

1972 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayland Kennet
Keyword(s):  
Human Environment ◽  
Stockholm Conference

Self-limitation as the basis of environmentally sustainable care of the self

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sťahel
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Individual

AbstractWhen we abandon the neoliberal fiction that one is independent on the grounds that it is a-historic and antisocial, we realize that everyone is dependent and interdependent. In a media-driven society the self-identity of the individual is formed within the framework of the culture-ideology of consumerism from early childhood. As a result, both the environmental and social destruction have intensified. In the global era, or in the era of the global environmental crisis, self-identity as a precondition for environmentally sustainable care of the self should be based on the culture-ideology of human rights and responsibilities, and on conscious self-limitation which realizes that one’s prosperity and security cannot come at the expense of others. Care of the self is about ensuring the habitability of the global environment as the primary interest of each individual.

scholarly journals Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan: Prospects and Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Aiman Amjad Ali ◽  
Fozia BiBi ◽  
Muhammad Imran Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Comprehensive Account

President Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan is tilted in favour of Israel. The prime motivation behind it is to put a favourable end to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Peace Plan has drawn great global response with those terming the Peace Plan as unreasonable outnumbering those who claim that the Peace Plan is devised to perfection. Despite the negative public opinion, President Trump still happens to be very confident about the prospects of his Peace Plan. The Peace Plan has very conveniently diverted attention from the domestic politics of both, President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is thereby, suspected to be a part of another possible political strategy. With a multitude of players in action, this paper shall attempt to draw a comprehensive account of all the prospects of Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan.

The Evolution of International Environmental Law

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Sand
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
Modern Era

Close interaction with national laws and policies has been the major driving force for innovation in international environmental law to the point where economists have noted with some perplexity the ‘non-ergodic world’ of environmental regimes, which is subject not only to unforeseeable natural and technological changes, but also teeming with regulatory approaches that are new, often divergent, and competing. Most descriptions of the historical evolution of international environmental law distinguish three or four major ‘periods’ or ‘phases’: the ‘traditional era’ until about 1970 (preceding the 1972 United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment), which is sometimes sub-divided into a pre-1945 and a post-1945 period; the ‘modern era’ from Stockholm to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro; and the ‘post-modern era’ after Rio. This article discusses developments in treaties during the modern era, along with developments in dispute settlement and national law, and the development of international environmental law as a discipline.

The Emerging Practice of Global Environmental Law

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tseming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Counsel ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
National Environmental

AbstractSince the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, ecological pressures on our planet have grown more acute. Yet, modern environmental law has also continued to evolve and spread within international as well as among national legal systems. With the paths of international and national environmental law becoming increasingly intertwined over the years, international environmental legal norms and principles are now penetrating deeper into national legal systems, and environmental treaties are increasingly incorporating or referencing national legal norms and practices. The shifting legal landscape is also changing contemporary environmental law practice, creating greater needs for domestic environmental lawyers to be informed by international law and vice versa. This essay describes how domestic environmental law practice is increasingly informed by international legal norms, while the effective practice of international environmental law more and more requires enhanced awareness, and even understanding, of national environmental regulatory and governance systems. It illustrates these trends with the historical role and work of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel.

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