List of years in the environment
This is a list of years in the environment. The subjects relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.
- Some of the more notable events are listed here with a full list on the respective pages.
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List of years
1920s
1940s
1950s
1960s
- 1962 - Silent Spring, the widely acclaimed book by Rachel Carson which documented the effects of indiscriminate use of pesticides, is published.
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1968
- 1969
1970s
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972 - The Limits to Growth was published. The book is about the computer modelling of unchecked economic and population growth with finite resource supplies, and became both controversial and influential.
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976 - Ongoing oil spills began in Nigeria leading to various environmental issues in the Niger Delta.
- 1977
- 1978 - The Amoco Cadiz oil spill occurred on the coast of Brittany resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.
- 1979 - The Three Mile Island accident, a partial nuclear meltdown that released radioactive material, occurred in the United States.
1980s
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985 - the International Tropical Timber Agreement enters into force.
- 1986 - the Chernobyl disaster, a catastrophic nuclear accident, occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
- 1987
- 1988 - the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer enters into force.
- 1989 - the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
1990s
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993 - the Convention on Biological Diversity, known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, enters into force. It is an international legally binding treaty.
- 1994 - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force.
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
2000s
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002 - the World Summit on Sustainable Development, WSSD or Earth Summit 2002 took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss sustainable development by the United Nations.
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
2010s
- - 2010 is declared to be the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations General Assembly.
- - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico flows unabated for three months.
- 2011 - 2011 was declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2019
2020s
- 2020 – starting with 2020 these articles also include significant events in environmental sciences
- 2021