Environment
2022 too short, too far: DTE’s stories on 50 years of Stockholm Declaration
By DTE Staff
Published: Sunday 01 January 2023
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.
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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.
Read more: Stockholm syndrome: What should ‘+50’ be about
Narain also wrote that when the world marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm Conference, it needs to discuss consumption and production.
Read more: Stockholm+50: How do we prepare for the next half century
Pushpam Kumar felt that sustainability should command top priority when the world met to review Stockholm; post-pandemic recovery must be inclusive, he added.
Read more: Stockholm+50: Measuring progress will be a big deal
Kiran Pandey and Rajit Sengupta explained with the help of data about what the world did after Stockholm.
Read more: Stockholm+50: Little to cheer
Koshy Cherail talked on how power generation and transmission models that are local and self-sustaining can increase access to energy in the future.
Read more: Stockholm+50: We need decentralisation of ‘power’
Felix Bast delved into how countries should draft an Arctic Treaty System in line with its Antarctic counterpart.
Read more: Polar Ebb & Stockholm+50: We need urgent agreement to protect Antarctica, the Arctic
Rajib Dasgupta wrote about the securitisation of pandemics and the One Health approach.
Read more: Stockholm+50: Securitisation of pandemics
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.
Read more: Stockholm+50: Is science for just solutions
M Rajeevan talked about the warming of the oceans.
Read more: Stockholm+50: Oceans on simmer
Inger Andersen, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme, talked about India and the Stockholm+50.
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