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Minamata Disease
The Minamata Disease was caused by a local factory that polluted the local waters of a small town in Japan and therefore caused many people to suffer from mercury poisoning as fish was one of the main food sources of the town. Many victims suffered from motor control function loss. -
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Silent Spring is an environmental science book that documents the detrimental effects of the environment and in particular the birds and the use of pesticides. The book blames the chemical industry of misinforming public officials and making it legal to use chemicals on the environment. -
The Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is an organization with a variety of internetional political issues. They are described as a group of citizens who have a common aim for the future of the world. -
Gaia hypothesis
The Gaia hypothesis proposes that living and non-living parts of the Earth form a complex system that can be considered as a single organism. -
Stockholm Conference
The conference concluded in agreeing to 26 principles concerning the environment and development. -
Save the Whales
Save the Whales is an organization that supports anti-whaling and the marine animals. Their purpose is to educate people about marine mammals, their environment and their preservation. -
Bhopal disaster
The Bhopal disaster was a gas leak that happened in India and is considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Because of the leak, more than half a million people were exposed and poisoned by methyl isocyanate. -
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The sinking of the ship named "Rainbow Warrior" was an operation by the French Foreign Intelligence Services. During the operation, the French sank the greenpeace flagship to a protest against a planned French nuclear test. -
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear incident that happened in Ukraine. A sudden explosion released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over the USSR and Europe. The battle to stop the spreading cost an estimated of $18 billion and also took and changed millions of lives. -
Our Common Feature
This book talks about multilateralism and interdependence of nations in the search for a sustainable development path. The publication of this book was the groundwork for the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit and the adoption of Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration and to the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development. -
UN Earth (Rio) Summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development addressed alternative sources of energy, new reliance on public transportation systems in order, the growing scarcity of water and the systematic scrutiny of patterns of production. An important achievement in this conference was that it led to Kyoto protocol. -
Agenda 21
Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the Rio summit that happened in 1992 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. -
Kyoto Climate Change Protocol
The document is an international treaty, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that engages the State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, based on the assumption that the global warming exists and that man-made CO2 emissions causes it -
Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
During this summit, sustainable development was discussed by the United Nations. Johannesburg Declaration was the main outcome of this summit. -
An inconvenient truth
"An Inconvenient Truth" is a movie that won an Academy award in 2006. It was about the former United States Vice President Al Gore and his campaign to educate people about the global warming and the effects on the climate. -
United Nations Climate Change Conference
The conference consisted the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. A framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012 was to be agreed here. -
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
the BP oil spill is considered the biggest accidental marine oil spill in the history of petroleum industry. The oil slick suddenly exploded and the oil dispersed into the sea. It took a month to seal the are and start the cleaning process of the spill. Although, to this day there are reports that local wells are still leaking oil. -
Fukushima Nuclear Accident
In 2011, in Japan, second biggest nuclear disaster happened. Three out of six plant reactors melted after a tsunami and a 9.0 Tohoku earthquake shook the plant. The plant began releasing substantial amounts of radioactive material, poisoning the nearby waters as well. Around 300,000 people were evacuated and around 2000 died because of the radiation.
