The Rio+20 World Summit takes place in Rio de Janeiro.
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The UN Conference for Environment and Development (UNED), known as the first “Earth Summit,” takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
Bao Maohong, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on landscape transformation in China.
Stephen Bell, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his research concerning the the transformation of land use in Brazil.
The commission provides mechanisms for resolving matters over waters bordering Canada and the USA.
In Donora, Pennsylvania, USA, 20 people die and over 7000 residents suffer respiratory distress as a result of an acrid smog disaster in late October 1948.
The Sandoz chemical disaster became one of the worst environmental disasters in Europe. It contaminated large parts of the area around Schweizerhalle near Basel and killed millions of plants and animals in the Rhine River.
The British Alkali Acts are a first systematic attempt to control the increasing pollution from the Alkali industry.