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Fifty years after Sweden hosted the first-ever United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, and with the world facing a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, governments, civil society, young people and the private sector today gathered for an international meeting – Stockholm+50 – to spur urgent action for a healthy planet for the prosperity of all.

Land is our lifeline on this planet. Yet ‘business as usual’ in how we manage land resources puts our own future on planet Earth in jeopardy,

In 1972, environmental activists, government leaders, and industry experts met in Stockholm, Sweden, for the United Nations Conference on the Human

Fifty years ago, on June 5, 1972, representatives from more than 100 governments gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, to attend the UN Conference on Human Environment, which is widely considered as the first international meeting focusing on the environment.

We must be mindful of current crises since the Stockholm Conference: the war in Ukraine, Covid-19 pandemic, the overarching climate crisis.