climate change

The UN Conference for Environment and Development (UNED), known as the first “Earth Summit,” takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The first scientific conference on the causes of climate change takes place in Boulder, Colorado, in the US.

The Global 2000 Report to US President Jimmy Carter is published.

The eruption kills nearly the entire population of the island of Sumbawa and destroys the coasts of two further Indonesian islands. The spread of ash clouds leads to “the year without summer.”