Stockholm+50: Sweden hosts major UN environment conference, yet is losing its own green credentials

By Victor Galaz, Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

You can almost feel the expectations in the air of the city of Stockholm, Sweden. The United Nations has organised a meeting of governments and the international sustainability community on June 2 and 3 to commemorate 50 years after the historic 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment that took place in the same city. Governments and others are expected to accelerate implementation of climate and biodiversity commitments, the UN’s…

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