The year 2022 marked 50 years of the Stockholm Declaration, when 122 countries — 70 of them developing and poor countries — essentially committed to 26 principles and an action plan that set in a multilateral environmental regime.
In 2022, “Stockholm+50: A healthy planet for the prosperity of all — our responsibility, our opportunity” was held in the Swedish capital. World leaders gathered to discuss how the next 50 years would be treated with emergency actions.
In the run-up to the meet, Down To Earth brought out a special edition on the Stockholm Declaration and the road ahead:
Richard Mahapatra talked about how the world needs to up its game to prevent the planet’s environmental crisis.
Sunita Narain opined about how the 50th anniversary celebration of the Stockholm Conference should be about the common future of humanity, not the divisions of the past.
Narain also wrote that when the world marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm Conference, it needs to discuss consumption and production.
Pushpam Kumar felt that sustainability should command top priority when the world met to review Stockholm; post-pandemic recovery must be inclusive, he added.
Kiran Pandey and Rajit Sengupta explained with the help of data about what the world did after Stockholm.
Koshy Cherail talked on how power generation and transmission models that are local and self-sustaining can increase access to energy in the future.
Felix Bast delved into how countries should draft an Arctic Treaty System in line with its Antarctic counterpart.
Rajib Dasgupta wrote about the securitisation of pandemics and the One Health approach.
Pia M Kohler wrote that if science-policy interfaces are to deliver just and effective solutions to climate change, they must involve indigenous peoples and local communities.
M Rajeevan talked about the warming of the oceans.
Inger Andersen, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme, talked about India and the Stockholm+50.