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The Stockholm Conference was the final peace conference of three that were anti-war.
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Mercury poisoning that caused a neurological disease, the mercury was leaking out from factories into the water supply for nearly 30 years.
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James Lovelock's Gaia is a theory about understanding the Earth and humanities relationship with it. Such as Climate change, health, energy and agriculture.
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A novel about pesticides causing the death of wanted wildlife.
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The Club of Rome is an organisation that consists of individuals who show concern for the future of the Earth and humanity.
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Bhopal was a chemical leak in India that released 30 tonnes of highly toxic gas
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The Rainbow Warrior was bombed resulting in it sinking off the coast of New Zealand. The Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace protest ship.
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Chernobyl was a nuclear disaster that took place in Ukraine but affected people world wide. The totally death toll has not been calculated but is estimated to be over 40,000 world wide (this factors in secondary causes of death).
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Our Common Future is book written by Brundtland Commission about finding a sustainable development path for the future.
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Agenda 21 is a UN action plan that concerns sustainable development.
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It is an agreement made by the countries in the Framework Convention on Climate change that demanded stronger laws on green house gas emissions.
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Major Unitied Nations Conference held in Rio, it was about development in the environment.
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It was a meeting to discuss sustainable developments by the UN.
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Is a documentary film on the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to stop it.
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It was a United Nations Climate Change Conference which resulted in an agreement in "taking note" of the situation