ABSTRACT
The period between 1966 and 1975 was a time of immense change on the world environmental scene. New, energetic, bodies began campaigning for action. Governments began to establish departments of environment. There was a flurry of environmental law-making. The first intergovernmental ‘summit’ on global environmental policy – the Stockholm Conference – was followed by the creation of UNEP, the UN Environment Programme. IUCN, ICBP and WWF, with UNESCO and FAO, no longer had the global environmental scene to themselves.
