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Main Milestones
2017
The Ocean Conference
2015
Addis Ababa Action Agenda
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Paris Agreement
2014
SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway
2013
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
2012
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, RIO +20: the Future We Want
2010
Five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation: MSI+5
2005
BPOA+10: Mauritius Strategy of Implementation
2002
World Summit on Sustainable (WSSD) Rio+10: Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
1999
Bardados Programme of Action (BPOA)+5
1997
UNGASS -19: Earth Summit +5
1994
Bardados Programme of Action (BPOA)
1993
Start of CSD
1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Agenda 21
1987
Our Common Future
1972
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference)
Creation of UNEP
Health and the Sustainable Development Goals: an Urban Systems Perspective
International Council for Science - ICSU,
Science Committee of the International Council for Science Global Programme on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment

Preamble: Processes of rapid regional and global change are transforming living spaces, lifestyles and demography, and, increasingly, the environment of the Earth itself, with important consequences for human health and wellbeing. Among the forces affecting health, urbanization is of primary importance—most people already live in cities, and the fraction of urban dwellers is rapidly increasing, entailing, inter alia, a geographical shift in the global and national incidence of poverty, mass migrations, crowded habitations, and significant stresses on resources and ecosystems.

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