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Objective As set out in Article 1, the objective of the Stockholm Convention is to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants. This certainly brought some difficulties to the proceedings of the conference.
But in the end an agreement was made. Sweden, as the president, and Maurice Strong, as the secretary-general, both played very constructive roles in engaging the Chinese delegation, providing them with daily updates on key discussions at the conference. Unlike the Stockholm Declaration, the Action Plan for the Human Environment was very detailed and technical, containing action points. After seeing China re-open the negotiation on the declaration, some countries entertained the idea of re-negotiating the action plan, too.
If that had happened, the conference would have ended in failure with countries unable to conclude the negotiations on time. China was pragmatic with its asks. While it called for the re-opening of the declaration text, it did not propose to re-negotiate the action plan.
According to some conference attendees, that position helped the conference reach a timely, successful conclusion. How has the Stockholm Conference shaped that journey? The conference invited every country to submit a report on its environmental issues. When Maurice Strong met with Qiao Guanhua, he proposed that China could use the report to introduce its experience in waste recycling to the world.
At that time, China already had some good practices with waste recycling. So what China presented was essentially its experience in environmental management.
The final action plan also contained sections on environmental management. Poor management led to environmental problems, that was the message. The reason for such a focus was that China at that time was still under-developed and lacked advanced technologies to copy the Western approach of technology-based pollution treatment. It had to achieve its environmental goals through better management. This was the legacy of the Stockholm Conference in China.
During the intense Cold War years, the US and Soviet Union found in environmental affairs a low-risk area for cooperation. It paved the way for the recognition of international cooperation in this arena. China was among the first countries to systematically and proactively start to advance international environmental cooperation.
Many other countries also invoked Principle 24 as a basis for advocating more cooperation. China Dialogue uses cookies to provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser. It allows us to recognise you when you return to China Dialogue and helps us to understand which sections of the website you find useful. Required Cookies should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.
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