Stockholm and beyond : report.

  • United States. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.
Date:
1972
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    4, That a United Nations Voluntary Fund for the Environment be created with a minimum annual budget of $100 million to be derived from contributions of member states based on an energy consumption formula (chapter VI, Advisory Committee Recommendation 2) ; 5. That a Division of Human Settlements be created under the Intergovernmental Body for the Environment to operate on a mini- mum annual budget of $50 million (chapter I, Advisory Committee Recommendations 1 and 2) ; 6. That methods be developed to resolve conflicts between nation- states on issues of environmental degradation (chapter VI, Advisory Committee Recommendation 8) ; 7. That international environmental impact statements be made and filed with the United Nations Environmental Office by nations, international development agencies, and multinational corporations (chapter VI, Advisory Committee Recommendation 6; chapter V, Advisory Committee Recommendation 1) ; 8. That a United Nations Report on the State of the World Envi- ronment be prepared periodically and issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations (chapter 6, Advisory Committee Recommen- dation 1, chapter III, Advisory Committee Recommendation 3) ; 9. That a global monitoring and surveillance network be developed to provide current information on the spread of pollution and the utilization of natural resources (chapter III, Advisory Committee Recommendation 1A) ; 10. That a standard-setting capability be established in the United Nations environmental office (chapter III, Advisory Committee Rec- ommendation 1F) ; 11. That all developed nations strive to meet the foreign assistance ~ goal of 1 percent of GNP and that, in addition, bilateral and multi- lateral development aid be increased to include the costs of incor- porating environmentally sound processes and products in the efforts to raise the standard of living for peoples of the world (chapter V, _ Advisory Committee Recommendation 4) ; 12. That an international effort be undertaken to assist all nations in evaluating the impact of population and its growth on the quality of human life, spreading knowledge of present population control methods, and sponsoring research into new methods. We do not rec- ommend any particular population policy. Rather, we propose the goal of an informed free choice by the nations of the world (chapter I, Advisory Committee Recommendation IB3) ;