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14 Harv. Int'l. L. J. 423 (1973)
Issue 3

handle is hein.journals/hilj14 and id is 435 raw text is: The Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment LOUIS B. SOHN* The Conference on the Human Environment, held at Stockholm from June 5 to i6, i972, was in many respects the most successful inter- national conference held in recent years. In a two-week period it adopted not only a basic Declaration and a detailed resolution on institutional and financial arrangements, but also xo9 recommendations comprising an ambitious action plan. The Declaration contains a set of common principles to inspire and guide the peoples of the world in the preservation and enhancement of the human environment. The resolution on institutional and financial arrangements proposed the establishment by the General Assembly of the United Nations of: an intergovernmental Governing Council for Environmental Pro- grammes, to provide general policy guidance for the direction and coordination of environmental programs; an Environment Secre- tariat headed by an Executive Director; an Environment Fund, to provide additional financing for environmental programs; and an * Bemis Professor of International Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School; LL. B. and Dipl.Sc.M. (John Casimir University), 1935; LL. M. Harvard, 1940; S.J.D. Harvard, 1958. During the early stages of the preparatory work for the Stockholm Conference, the author served as the Counselor on International Law at the Department of State, but he was present at the Conference merely as an observer for a non-governmental organization, the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace. x. The official text of these documents is contained in the RavoiTr oF TE U.N. CONFERENCE ON THE HumAN ENVIRONMENT, U.N. Doc. A/CONF.48/14, at 2-65, and Corr.r (1972). They have been reprinted in CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INFOR- MA N AT U.N. EUROPEAN HEADQUA~rTES, ENvmoNENT: STOcKHOLM (1972) (there are two editions of this widely distributed document, the second of which though less colorful is more complete); 1i INT'L LEGAL MATS. I416-69 (1972); SwESHs MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, FORENTA NATONERNAS MILJ6KONFERENS I STOCKHOLM 83-141 (Aktstycken utgivna av Utrikesdepartementet, Ny serie 11:25; 1972; in English). The text of the Declaration is also published in 67 DEP'T. STATE BULL. i6 (1972).

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