World Resources Institute: This gathering represents mans earnest endeavor to understand his own condition and to prolong his tenancy of this planet.
With these stirring words, Indira Gandhi, Indias Prime Minister, galvanized the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. A wake-up call to the state of our planet, Stockholm gave birth to the UN Environment Programme, amid high hopes that humanity could together curb alarming trends in pollution and natural resource loss.
Hopes were high when a 43-year-old...