Stockholm+50

Stockholm+50: A Healthy Planet for the Prosperity of All
– Our Responsibility, Our Opportunity

Stockholm+50, which will be held in June 2022, marks 50 years since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, which led to the foundation of environmental ministries around the world, and created a host of global environmental agreements.

“You (the youth) must know there are others before you that have pushed, the fact that we have cleaner air and cleaner water is because of the work of the past 50 years,” said Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of UNEP, “Today when we know that what we do now will forever set the path and the trajectory of earth, that responsibility is an awesome and a frightening responsibility at the same time.”

The launch of the Youth Task Force follows the release in February of the Geo-6 for Youth Report UNEPs first fully interactive e-publication, written by youth for youth. Geo-6 for Youth provides a one-stop-shop for young people to understand the state of the environment.

Youth will play an important part in the Stockholm+50 meeting where leaders will drive action to achieve sustainable development for the well-being of current and future generations. Not only will the meeting reflect on the achievements of the last fifty years but it will set a path moving forward in order to overcome the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution.