jan 1, 1990 - Green awareness strengthens
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1. Environmental friendly products, recycling and ecotourism become popular.
2. Create awareness about issues and shape public policy and opinion in favour of sustainable, green societies and economies.
3. Strengthening the institutional and professional capacity of media and ensuring their safety and protection from life threatening dangers and commercial pressures is essential for investigative journalistic reports to flourish and for consistent public awareness and engagement on sustainability issues.
4. At UN Environment we are working internationally and with over 50 individual countries to ensure the progressive development of environmental law.
Environmental awareness grew in the second half of the twentieth century. With this awareness, the public demand for environmental safeguards and remedies to environmental problems became an expectation of a greater role for government. A number of laws were on the books before the 1960s, such as early versions of federal legislation to address limited types of water and air pollution, and some solid waste issues, such as the need to eliminate open dumping.
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