Match List - I with List - II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

The correct answer is option (4) - (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Correct Match:

Explanation:

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading environmental authority within the United Nations system. It was established in 1972 after the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. UNEP acts as a catalyst, advocate, educator, and facilitator for environmental issues.

Although environmental concerns have a long history, awareness of the environmental consequences of economic growth acquired an increasingly political character from the 1960s onwards. The Club of Rome, a global think tank, published a book in 1972 entitled Limits to Growth, dramatising the potential depletion of the Earth’s resources against the backdrop of rapidly growing world population.

The growing focus on environmental issues within the arena of global politics was firmly consolidated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. This was also called the Earth Summit.

The 1987 Brundtland Report, Our Common Future, warned that traditional patterns of economic growth were not sustainable in the long term, especially in view of the demands of the South for further industrial development.