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bhopal leakage disaster
A leak in an industrial plant in India with a death toll of over 8000 people died 2 weeks after the incident. The overall death toll being around 16000 -
James Lovelock's Gaia
the Gaia theory proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet. -
minamata disease
caused by the release of poisonous mercury into the water system which was in Japan. -
Silent Spring
silent spring is a story about the life of a woman named Rachel Carson who set out to fight against chemical industries as the effect on the environment and wildlife were so catastrophic it caused the mornings of summer and spring to be mute from animals. -
The club of Rome
In April, 1968, the Club of Rome was founded by members of the original Morgenthau group during a meeting at Rockefeller's private house in Bellagio, Italy. The meeting was organized by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist who had close relations to the Olivetti Corporation and Fiat. -
stockholme conference
Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference) was an international conference convened under United Nations auspices held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5-16, 1972. -
Copenhagen
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Sinkng of the rainbow warrior
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. -
Chernobyl disaster
on april 1986 a large explosion happened in a nuclear plant causing toxic radiation to contaminated over 50000 people and many after got life threatening diseases such as cancer meaning that the high death toll is still unspecified. -
Our common future
Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report, from the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) was published in 1987. Its targets were multilateralism and interdependence of nations in the search for a sustainable development path. -
Agenda 21
it was a united nations action plan for sustainable development in 1992. -
UN Earth (Rio) Summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , Rio Summit, Rio Conference, and Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. -
Kyoto Climate Change Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations. -
Johannes Burg world summit on sustainable development
The World Summit on Sustainable Development, Earth Summit 2002 took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss sustainable development by the United Nations. -
An Inconvenient truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times.