Suhani Dhaka, Vivekananda School of Law and Legal Studies, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
ABSTRACT
In the last few decades, there has been an increasing concern and consciousness about the need to protect the environment, nationally and internationally. To have numerous treaties and conventions on international level and to enumerate number of provisions in law of a country will not be effective if these won’t be implemented. Therefore, the major step to achieve all environmental goals is successful execution of all the provisions enumerated. Earlier environmental law was not prioritized much by the nations worldwide. In 1972, United Nation Conference on Human Environment (UNCHE) was held at Stockholm, which was the first world conference to make the environment a major issue. It contained 26 principles and gave an action plan for all the participant nations to follow. As a result United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was created. Another conference was United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as Earth Summit, held in Rio de jenario, Brazil in 1992. This summit widened the scope of term environment and its relation with other sciences. It explained how all those are interrelated. The objective of Earth summit was to provide guidance to nations for development of policies and treaties in order to promote international cooperation. These conferences introduced the concept of sustainable development to the governments and the citizens. “There are no passengers on spaceship Earth, we all are crew members”- Marshall McLuhan, this famous quote explains the concept of sustainable development very well. We all being crew members have to take care of all the resources we get and we cannot just enjoy the availability of resources without thinking of sustaining those for future generations.
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