THE 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm (Sweden) was the first to recognize the importance of environmental education as essential "in order to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises and communities in protecting and improving the environment into full human dimension." By 1978, the first UNEscap/UNEP Inter-governmental Conference on Environmental Protection Legislation considered such education to be a very important supporting program in environmental law.
At the time, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) had already been in existence since 1967, but it was only in 1981 that itapproved the Manila Declaration on the Environment which formally established the Asean Committee on the Environment, with priorities including"environmental education and training." The Manila Declaration became the starting point for active cooperation on environmental law among member countries culminating in the formulation of an Asean Agreement for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Thereafter, Asean soft law instruments were continuously enacted.
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