ABSTRACT
The first major post-war high-level global conference to discuss environmental questions was held in Stockholm in 1972. International attention began to be increasingly focused on environmental regulation again at a global level from the mid-1980s. The short-run effect of adverse external events in catalysing diplomatic activity is in fact one of the main features of safety-related environmental diplomacy. The concept of a collegiate conference is drawn from the idea of the amount of delegation given to the chairmen of the principal committees to create and promote draft texts within the committees. In multilateral diplomacy, one way of understanding the differing interests and degrees of involvement is through the concept of ‘stakeholder’. Stakeholders are those states and other actors that seek to safeguard or enhance particular concerns or sets of interests over and above general or minimal interest in the proceedings of a conference.
