ABSTRACT
The international meeting ‘Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility our opportunity’, held 50 years after the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, brought together the United Nations agencies, 150 member states and stakeholders to reflect on global environmental governance. The 1972 conference laid the foundation for modern environmental diplomacy by linking human development with sustainability. Stockholm+50 aimed to reinvigorate these commitments, focusing on action for the 2030 Agenda and strengthening multilateral cooperation. The meeting emphasized the need for bold action, political will and solidarity. It resulted in the ‘Agenda for Action, Renewal, and Trust’, which includes ten recommendations focused on placing human well-being at the heart of a healthy planet, recognizing the right to a healthy and sustainable environment, need for restoring our relationship with nature and transforming economic systems, attitudes and behaviour, and strengthening intergenerational responsibility in policymaking and trust in multilateralism.
