The United Nations declares basic development goals to be met by 2015.
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In light of the dramatic decline in whale populations, whaling nations found the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Approximately 12,000 people die as a result of the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom.
Egon Glesinger publishes his study on the global importance of wood as a raw material.
The German state regulates conservation for the first time 1935.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is founded. Today, it is considered the world’s largest conservation organization.
The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.
The Erie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage.
German physicist Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.
The Act is the first British legislation to encompass all of India’s forests and waterways.