Environment Protection from International Perspectives — Stockholm Conference, Rio Declaration and Johannesburg Declaration

The smoke from crop burning in one state hangs over Delhi; a plastic bottle dropped at Versova can wash up on another country's beach. Pollution does not stop at a municipal limit or at a border. So who makes the rules when the problem belongs to everyone? From 1972 onwards the world began answering that question in a series of conferences, and India's own pollution statutes quote some of them in their opening paragraphs. This topic tells you what each conference decided and how those decisions reached Indian law.

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Environmental law began as a national matter but became international through three landmark UN meetings (Stockholm 1972, Rio 1992, Johannesburg 2002) and four treaties (UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol and the Convention on Biological Diversity), and India brings them home through Article 253 of the Constitution and the preambles of its own Acts.

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