2. Raising awareness of the environment: three key reports
2.1 Report of the Stockholm Conference
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the smallest but most powerful segment of humanity gradually became aware that not only could consumer goods alone not account for quality of life, but that they also contributed to the degradation of the environment. This observation was expressed in concrete terms by President Richard Nixon at Congress on January 22, 1970: "Over the next ten years, our wealth will increase by 50%. The key question is this: will we really be half as rich, half as prosperous, half as happy? Or will it mean that in 1980, the President standing in this place, looking back on the past ten years, will see a decade in which 70% of our population lived in urban centers paralyzed by traffic, suffocated by industrial smog, poisoned by water,...
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Management environnemental - ISO 14000 série - 1996
- Responsabilité sociétale des entreprises - ISO 26000 - 2010
Regulations
Amended Act of December 19, 1917, relating to dangerous, unhealthy, or inconvenient establishments.
Law No. 60-708 of July 22, 1960, on the creation of national parks.
Law No. 61-842 of August 2, 1961, on combating air pollution and odors, amending the law of December 19, 1917.
Law No. 64-1245 of December 16, 1964, on water management and distribution...
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