Māris kļaviņŠ, azamat azizov, JĀnis zaļoksnis environment, pollution, development: the case of uzbekistan

Figure 10.13. 
Opening 
of the United Nations 
Conference on the 
Human Environment in 
Stockholm, June 5, 1972
Figure 10.14. 
Gro 
Harlem Brundtland, 
ex-Prime Minister 
of the Kingdom of 
Norway and Chair of 
the World Commission 
on Environment and 
Development

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public conventions in all five continents, and the report Our Common 
Future prepared by the Commission was published in 1987. The 
report was widely used by the United Nations and others in order 
to emphasise the possibilities of implementing the set goals in each 
state. The definition of sustainable development was an agreement 
on political principles, arrived at through a difficult process, which 
would serve as basis for a careful and responsible monitoring and 
use of the resources of the Earth.
‘Sustainable development is development that meets 
the needs of our generation without compromising the 
ability of future generations to meet their needs.’ 
The process of founding Green Parties took off – as early as 1972 
in New Zealand, later in 1973 – in Great Britain, 1974 – France, 1978 – 
Belgium  and  West  Germany,  1979  –  Switzerland  and  Luxembourg, 
1980 – Finland, 1981 – Sweden, 1982 – Austria and Ireland, 1983 – 
the Netherlands and 1984 – Italy. In the elections of the European 
Parliament in 1984, Green Parties from seven states took part.
The Green Party of Latvia was founded in January 1990 as the 
first  new  political  party  in  Latvia  before  the  Declaration  of  Inde-
pend ence on May 4.
A new ideological turning point in the environ mental protection 
movement was needed in order to be able to formulate the new 
philosophy of life, like the Club of Rome had done before. In Gaia: A 
New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock, published in 1979, the 
general arguments were accompanied by a new comprehensive view, 
namely that the humankind is only part of a much greater natural 
system as the processes that take place on the Earth are influenced 
by all living organisms that inhabit the planet. They are inseparable, 
interrelated and form a unity – the biosphere.