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UK's ten National Parks are established.
Recognition of need to conserve natural areas. -
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NGOs gain greater following
Public awareness grows. WWFN, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth all formed. -
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws, and one of the most comprehensive air quality laws in the world. -
First Earth Summit - UN Conference on the Human Environment
Declaration of UN conference. Action Plan of the Human Environment. Environment Fund established. Formation of UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Earth Summits planned at ten-year intervals. -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. -
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) human-made CO2 emissions have caused it.
