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Sustainable Development Timeline

Sustainable Development Timeline. Page 3 Lisamarie Escudero. 1972: Club of Rome publishes the controversial Limits to Growth: This research analyzed five variables: world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion. 1973 OPEC oil crisis

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Sustainable Development Timeline

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  1. Sustainable Development Timeline Page 3 Lisamarie Escudero

  2. 1972: Club of Rome publishes the controversial Limits to Growth: This research analyzed five variables: world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion. • 1973 OPEC oil crisis proclaimed an oil embargo (the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country) to the countries that supported Israel during Yom Kippur war • 1973 United States enacts the Endangered Species Act It was designed to protect critically endangered species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development • 1973 Chipko movement Is born in India in response to deforestation and environmental degradation. Chipkoallow the reunion the different casts. Chipko means embrace. Resistance without violence • 1974 Rowland and Molina release work on chorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Scientists calculated that if CFC production continued to increase at the going rate of 10% per year until 1990 and then remain steady, CFCs would cause a global ozone loss of 5 to 7% by 1995, and a 30 to 50% loss by 2050. • 1974 Latin American World Model developed by the FundaciónBariloche. Is the answer of South America to limits of growth and a call for growth and equity for the Third World

  3. 1975 Worldwatch Institute to raise public awareness of global environmental threats and catalyze effective policy responses; begins publishing annual State of the World in 1984. • 1975 CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species . International agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. • 1976 Habitat, the UN Conference on Human Settlements. the first global meeting to link the environment and human settlement. • 1977 UN Conference on Desertification • to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements. • 1977 Green Belt Movement starts he Green Belt Movement. Kenya. Organization of women to plant tress, fight against deforestation and soil erosion and empower them by training in food processing, forestry and bee-keeping • 1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill occurs off the coast of Brittany

  4. Amoco Cadiz

  5. Chipko Movement

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