Environment & Climate Change

The Stockholm+50 international meeting of the global environmental community, convened by the United Nations and hosted by Sweden with support from the Government of Kenya, took place in Stockholm on June 2-3, 2022.
The event was held under the slogan "A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity" giving leaders the opportunity to leverage 50 years of multilateral environmental action to achieve the urgent action needed to ensure a better future on a healthy planet.

To address the planetary crisis, the event recognizes the importance of a multi-stakeholder integrated approach that includes climate, nature and pollution.

Оne of the objectives is to accelerate the implementation of the UN Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, and to promote the adoption of green post-COVID-19 recovery plans.



Parliament of Sweden

The three leadership dialogues, presided over by two Co-Chairs—one from a developing country and one from a developed country (Canada and Ecuador, Indonesia and Germany, Finland and Egypt) – contributed productively to Stockholm+50, with clear and specific recommendations for action at all levels. Hundreds of speakers at the meeting, and through webinars, thousands of people from around the world participated in discussions and put forward their views.



During Stockholm+50, We Don't Have Time (the world's largest review platform for climate solutions), together with its partners and UNDP hosted a public arena for the entire week, called STHLM+50 Climate Hub

The Stockholm+50 discussions reaffirmed that only a collective effort by the whole planet can solve the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. The path to a healthy planet requires bold and thoughtful action, as well as clear political will, financing, and support for the capacity to achieve sustainable development.



From left to right - Daniel Magraw (President Emeritus of the Center for International Environmental Law), Åsa Pettersson (CEO, Swedenergy), Seth Grae (CEO, Lightbridge Corporation), Sweta Chakraborty (President, US Operations at We Don't Have Time)

Here are some final recommendations from the meeting:

- To put human well-being at the center of a healthy planet and prosperity for all, while requiring a fundamental change in the attitudes, habits and behaviour of the individual.

- To recognize and implement the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment through fulfilling the vision articulated in principle 1 of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration.

- To adopt a comprehensive change in the way our current economic system works, investing more in infrastructure and developing effective policies to promote sustainable consumption and production, and promoting the phase-out of fossil fuels.



Khashayar Farmanbar, Swedish Minister for Energy and Digital Development providing key notes on how do we achieve energy security without sacrificing our climate goals

- To accelerate system-wide transformations of high impact sectors, such as food, energy, water, buildings and construction, manufacturing, and mobility by promoting resource efficiency, regenerative approaches to production, transforming food systems, and minimizing food waste.

- To strengthen national implementation of existing commitments for a healthy planet.

“We believe that we have – collectively – mobilized and used the potential of this meeting. We now have a blueprint of acceleration to take further,” Annika Strandhäll, Sweden’s Minister for Climate and the Environment, said in her closing remarks. “Stockholm+50 has been a milestone on our path towards a healthy planet for all, leaving no one behind.”