Sustainability Timeline
1962 Silent Spring
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1962

Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring.
1972 Club of Rome: The Limits to Growth report
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1972
1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment
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1972

The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment is adopted in Stockholm and the concept of sustainable
development receives international attention.
1980 IUCN/UNEP/WWF: The World Conservation Strategy report
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1980
1987 Montreal Protocol
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1987

International agreement reached to limit the use of substances harmful to the ozone layer.
1987 Our Common Future
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1987

World Commission on Environment and Development, better known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes Our Common Future.
1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development
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1992
1993 World Conference on Human Rights
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1993
1994 International Conference on Population and Development
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1994
1995 World Conference on Social Development
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1995
1995 World Conference on Women
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1995
1996 UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
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1996
1997 Earth Summit + 5
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1997

EarthSummit + 5, or Rio + 5, reviews Agenda 21 progress in the past five years; despite some progress, partipants are"deeply concerned" that the overall trends had got worse since 1992.
1997 Kyoto Climate Change Protocol
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1997

Kyoto Climate Change Protocol sets greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
1999 President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)
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1999
1999 CitNet National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America
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1999
2000 UN Millennium Goals
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2000

UN identifies eight goals to chieve by 2015, including eradicting hunger and povery and achieving envionmental sustainability.
2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
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2002
2005 Kyoto Protocol ratified
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2005

Counties who contribute to at least 55% of the 1990 CO2 emmission ratify the protocol.
2012 Rio + 20
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2012