It’s time for bold choices. It’s time for urgent action. It’s time for a better future on a healthy planet.
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Stockholm+50 commemorates the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and celebrates 50 years of global environmental action. By recognizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling the Earth’s triple planetary crisis – climate, nature, and pollution – the international meeting aims to drive action toward a healthy planet for the prosperity of all.
On the eve of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, a group of 2,200 scientists signed a letter — now known as the Menton Message — to their (then) 3.5 billion neighbours on Earth.
After 50 years, environmental action seems like one step forward and two back. Our economic, political and social institutions are failing us. Financial power is concentrated in the hands of a few and legitimizes the relentless pursuit of profits and those most responsible for the crisis are the ones who suffer the least.
As Stockholm+50 gets under way, the International Science Council, Future Earth and the Stockholm Environment Institute have convened an expert group of natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and humanities scholars to modernize and extend that historical call.
Read the open letter "A letter to fellow citizens of Earth" and sign it here.
The science is clear: decisive and bold action is urgently needed. Our relationship with nature needs to shift from appropriation and extraction towards protection and care. Human-nature connectedness should be strengthened in social norms and value systems, and in physical terms in how we live our everyday lives.
Ahead of the Stockholm+50, CEEW and SEI launched the report Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future.
The report synthesizes up-to-date scientific evidence and analyses the intertwined human and environmental crisis facing the world today. The report also presents key actions that can be taken now to seed transformative change to ensure lasting prosperity for all, and invest in a better future.
Join the conversation on how the conditions for delivering on commitments made for a better future must improve. READ further from the links above
On the eve of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, a group of 2,200 scientists signed a letter — now known as the Menton Message — to their (then) 3.5 billion neighbours on Earth.
After 50 years, environmental action seems like one step forward and two back. Our economic, political and social institutions are failing us. Financial power is concentrated in the hands of a few and legitimizes the relentless pursuit of profits and those most responsible for the crisis are the ones who suffer the least.
As Stockholm+50 gets under way, the International Science Council, Future Earth and the Stockholm Environment Institute have convened an expert group of natural scientists, social scientists, engineers and humanities scholars to modernize and extend that historical call.
Read the open letter "A letter to fellow citizens of Earth" and sign it here.
The science is clear: decisive and bold action is urgently needed. Our relationship with nature needs to shift from appropriation and extraction towards protection and care. Human-nature connectedness should be strengthened in social norms and value systems, and in physical terms in how we live our everyday lives.
Ahead of the Stockholm+50, CEEW and SEI launched the report Stockholm+50: Unlocking a Better Future.
The report synthesizes up-to-date scientific evidence and analyses the intertwined human and environmental crisis facing the world today. The report also presents key actions that can be taken now to seed transformative change to ensure lasting prosperity for all, and invest in a better future.
Join the conversation on how the conditions for delivering on commitments made for a better future must improve. READ further from the links above
Keywords
sustainable development
multilateralism
environmental assessment
environmental diplomacy