From June 5-16, 1972 the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment [7] was held in Stockholm, Sweden headed by Maurice Strong, who at the time was a Rockefeller Foundation trustee. The conference is “hailed as a landmark moment in the history of the modern environmental movement.” [1] The first UN conference with “environment” in the title.
At this conference the resolution was passed to for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which would lead progressively to Agenda 21 and become the driving body for Sustainable Development . [2, 3]