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Stockholm 1972 and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance

The opening of the UN Conference, Stockholm, June 1972. Photo: Wikicommons

Webinar convened by the RUCHE (France), the Environmental humanities lab at KTH (Stockholm) and the Luigi Einaudi Foundation (Torino).

Time: Mon 2022-06-06 14.30 - 18.00

Location: https://webinaire.ehess.fr/b/bon-kaa-knp

Language: English

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Program

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2.30 pm

Welcome, Christophe Bonneuil (CRH, EHESS & RUCHE)

Opening talk, Sverker Sörlin - Empowering the Human Environment: Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance
 

Chair: Francesco Cassata (University of Genoa)

3.15h – 6 pm Paper session

Chair: Sabine Höhler (KTH Environmental humanities lab)

Eric Paglia (KTH Environmental humanities lab) - Sparking the Stockholm Conference: Science diplomacy and the Swedish Initiative, 1967-1970

Gianluca Borzoni (University of Cagliari) - Towards Stockholm 1972. The Nixon Administration and the beginnings of US environmental diplomacy

Christophe Bonneuil (RUCHE, Paris) – "Show strong reservations ... [to proposals to control] activities that may have a role on climate": climate change as an emerging global environmental issue at Stockholm 72, and how the French viewed it

Sara Lorenzini (University of Trento) - The environment-development nexus at Stockholm and the role of Barbara Ward

Gloria Samosir (KTH, Stockholm) - Development and Environment: The World Bank at the 1972 Stockholm Conference

Federico Paolini (University of Campania 'L. Vanvitelli') - ILO reaction to Stockholm 72