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Trends in Sustainable Development Andrea Copsey

Oil 1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker runs aground, dumping 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound 1991 Hundreds of oil fires burn BP oil spill

Wild life 1962 Silent Spring 1980 Global 2000 report is released Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey is declared extinct

Population 1968 Paul Ehrlich publishes The Population Bomb, on 1980 World Conservation Strategy 1994 China’s Agenda Increasing urbanization 2011 The world population reaches 7 billion

Pollution 1969 Cuyahoga River, Ohio, United States catches on fire 1971 Polluter pays principle 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and UNEP 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 2004 Delhi mandates the use of compressed natural gas in city buses and auto rickshaws,

Ozone 1974 Rowland and Molina release work on chorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 1985 Antarctic ozone hole 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 2006 NASA reports that the ozone layer is recovering 2007 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Future