Giorgio Nebbia, Bartolomeo Sorge and the Contribution of the Holy See to the UN Conference on Human Environment

Luigi Piccioni ()
Additional contact information
Luigi Piccioni: Università della Calabria

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, 2022, vol. 56, issue 2, 73-90

Abstract: The Stockholm Conference represented a turning point for the global consideration of environmental issues not only because of the decisions that were made there but also because of its visibility, the forces it mobilized, and its long and painful gestation. Among the many initiatives taken during the preparatory phase, one had the merit of directly involving and mobilizing all the governments of the participating countries: the request to respond to an eight-point questionnaire on the state of the environment in their own country and to draw up a more comprehensive report around the possible form and content of the final declaration of the Conference. In spite of its small territorial size the Holy See made a serious effort to respond to the UN solicitation and provided two competent and thoughtful documents of considerable depth. This was due to the fact that the coordinator of the commission charged with drafting the documents, the Jesuit Father Bartolomeo Sorge, was able to gather around him a diverse and qualified group of experts and was able to benefit in particular from the expertise of Giorgio Nebbia, one of the first Italian scientists to join the Italian environmental movement of the Sixties.

Keywords: Environmental diplomacy; Stockholm Conference; Holy See; Giorgio Nebbia; Bartolomeo Sorge. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/images/LVI/2022-2-005-Piccioni.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fle:journl:v:56:y:2022:i:2:p:73-90

DOI: 10.26331/1197

Access Statistics for this article

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science is currently edited by Francesco Cassata, Mario Aldo Cedrini, Roberto Marchionatti, Federica Morelli and Angela Ambrosino

More articles in Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science from Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino (Italy) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mario Aldo Cedrini ().