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Fifty years on, how Ziggy Stardust and the first UN climate summit changed our vision of the future.
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Fifty years on, how Ziggy Stardust and the first UN climate summit changed our vision of the future.
The final day of the Stockholm Conference in 1972 was the day David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars was released to the world. Fifty years on, the hopes and fears evoked in this album, like the conference, are still feel disturbingly relevant, writes David Larsson Heidenblad.
In June 1972, the first United Nations conference on the human environment coincided with the release of David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust album. Both still feel disturbingly relevant today
An explosion of climate research has bloated the U.N. assessments that guide governments, with some experts arguing for reforms to the process
The initial report series by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 1990, totaled a relatively modest 1,000 pages.