conferences

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

The World Conference on Science and Technology for Human Development takes place in Bucharest, Romania.

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment becomes the first UN conference focused solely on the global environment.

The first international conference on global biosphere protection by UNESCO takes place in Paris in 1968.

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

Paul Sarasin delivers his address “Über die Aufgaben des Weltnaturschutzes” (On Tasks of the World Nature Protection Movement).