The most important of these processes have included:

• the 1972 Stockholm Declaration

• the 1987 Brundtland Commission’s Report of the Legal Experts Group on Principles of International Law for the Protection of the Environment and Sustainable Development

• the 1992 Rio Declaration

• Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

• 2000 Millennium Declaration

• the 2002 Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

• the 2002 New Delhi Declaration of the International Law Association