Under the Apocalypse Shadow: A Personal Testimony of 50 Years in the Environmental Cause

Authors

Keywords:

environment, biography, Stockholm Conference, ECO92

Abstract

Personal testimony by Rubens Ricupero on the 50 years of his involvement with the environmental cause, since the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972; permeating the negotiations of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty; the birth in 1988 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, or ECO92;
including the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and the Legal Amazon creation period. The balance of the environmental cause is not limited to an analysis of losses and gains. It reflects on the time limit available to achieve the agenda’s objectives, which is not elastic but finite.

Author Biography

Rubens Ricupero

Diplomata aposentado e historiador. Foi embaixador junto à ONU (Genebra),
em Washington e Roma; assessor de Tancredo Neves e José Sarney; ministro do Meio Ambiente e da
Amazônia; ministro da Fazenda; secretário-geral da UNCTAD. Atualmente é titular da Cátedra José
Bonifácio da USP para 2022 e conselheiro emérito do CEBRI.

Published

2022-12-14

How to Cite

Ricupero, R. (2022). Under the Apocalypse Shadow: A Personal Testimony of 50 Years in the Environmental Cause. CEBRI-Revista: Brazilian Journal of International Affairs, (4), 48–64. Retrieved from https://cebri-revista.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/78