December 1972: UN General Assembly Resolution 2997 (XXVII): Institutional and Financial Arrangements for International Environmental Cooperation – establishment of UNEP
June 1992: Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21
February 1997 Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of UNEP
June 1997: Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21
July 1997 ‘Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform" - Secretary General's Report’ (A/51/950)
November 1997 UN General Assembly Resolution 52/12: ‘Renewing the United Nations: a programme for reform’
May 1998 UNEP Governing Council Fifth Special Session: Policy Statement of the Executive Director: A New UNEP for a New Millennium
May 1998 UNEP Governing Council decision SS.V/2 ‘Revitalization, reform and strengthening of UNEP’
October 1998 Report of the Secretary-General on Environment and Human Settlements (and its annex: Report of the UN Task Force on Environment and Human Settlements) (A/53/463)
February 1999 UNEP Governing Council 20th Session: Policy Statement of the Executive Director
February 1999 UNEP Governing Council decision 20/17: ‘Views of the Governing Council on the Report of the Secretary-General on Environment and Human Settlements’
August 1999 UN General Assembly Resolution 53/242 ‘Report of the Secretary-General on Environment and Human Settlements’
April 2000 ‘We the Peoples: the Role of the UN in the 21st Century: report of the Secretary-General’ (A/54/2000)
May 2000 UNEP Governing Council Sixth Special Session/First Global Ministerial Environment Forum: Malmö Ministerial Declaration
September 2000 UN Millennium Declaration and the resulting Millennium Development Goals (UN General Assembly Resolution 55/2)
February 2001 UNEP Governing Council 21st Session/Second Global Ministerial Environment Forum: Policy Statement of the Executive Director
February 2001: UNEP Governing Council 21st decision 21/20 on Governance of UNEP and implementation of General Assembly resolution 53/242
February 2001 UNEP Governing Council 21st decision 21/21 on international environmental governance
February 2002 UNEP Governing Council Seventh Special Session/Third Global Ministerial Environment Forum: Policy Statement of the Executive Director
February 2002 Decisions adopted by UNEP’s Governing Council at its Seventh Special Session/Third Global Ministerial Environment Forum – including, SS.VII/1 on international environmental governance and SS.VII/2 on the contribution of UNEP to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. (A/57/25)
September 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development – Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and Plan of Implementation
Other texts of major international agreements related to environment and development can be found on the web-site’s of UNEP and the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs.
