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Program of Cooperation to the Development

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Main International Agreements on Environment

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Year	Event
1972	United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, June 1972). Startup of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
1975	Intergovernmental Meeting on the Protection of the Mediterranean (Barcelona, February 1975) • Convention on the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution • Mediterranean Action Plan
1987	Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, authors the report “Our common future” for the United Nations First expression in an official document of the concept “sustainable development”
1992	United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “Earth Summit” (Rio de Janeiro, June 1992). • Rio Declaration • Agenda 21 • Convention on Climate Change • Convention on Biological Diversity • Declaration of Principles regarding forests
1994	International Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification (Paris, June 1994)
1995	Plenipotentiary Conference on the Convention to Protect the Mediterranean Sea from Pollution (Barcelona, June 1995). • Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea • Barcelona Resolution on the Environment and Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean Basin • Mediterranean Action Plan (revised or Phase II) • Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean
1995	Second Environment Conference of Regional Ministers and Political Leaders in the European Union (Valencia, November 1995). • Charter on the role of the Regions of Europe in environmental policy (Valencia Charter)
1996	United Nations Habitat II Conference on Human Settlements (Istanbul, June 1996) • Istanbul Declaration • Habitat Agenda
1997	UN General Assembly: special session on the environment and development “Rio +5” (New York, June 1997) • Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 • Multi-year work programme for the Commission on Sustainable Development 1998-2002
1999	International Conference on Synergies in Desertification Processes in the Mediterranean Region (Perpignan, March 1999)
2000	UN General Assembly: Millennium Declaration – Millennium Development Goals (New York, September 2000)
2002	World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, August 2002).
2005	Millennium Ecosystems Assessment (March, 2005). • Evaluation of consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes.

Source: Programme Azahar compilation.