DECLASSIFIED PA HO Department of State E O 12958 as amended June 22 2004 E ECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT c ouNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 722 JACKSON PLACE N W WASHINGTON 0 C 20006 JUN 1 9 1972 MEMORANDUM FQR THE PRESIDENT Subject UN Confe tence on the Human Environment From Russell E 1Train The UN Confer nce on the Human Environment Stockhobn Jane 5-16 concludqd on schedule last F1·iday night It is my p e rsonjal asaeasment that the Conference was a success The Uni ed States played a strong role and gained practically all o i 1J objectives The Unitod Sta es proposal for a $100 million Environment Fund your per - onfl initiative in your February 1972 Environn Message provided1the 1 1ingle concrete proposal·whiclt•helped the entire action P f ogram together Our commitment of $40 toward the Fund w s matched by about $2 5 million in specific by other governmejnts A nu mber of other expressions of gen 1 ental ull illion ledge a ral support were give11- The Conferenc al o recornn1ended establhhment of a i lm ll permanent enviroqmental unit in the UN to coordinate UN envi orunentat activities This as another key US objective Other major 5 objective 1 1 which v jere approved support for an ocean dumpin convention tluppoft for a 10-year whaling moratorium to be ested next week at the ternational Whaling Commission meeting L n London which I am attendipg approval of your recommendation for World Heritage Trust a pd a global environmental monitoring progr m We conshtent y opposed politicizing of the Conference war nnd sirnilar L nue ' and had good success given the rnak up of the Conference v- · e also consistently opposed using the C nference as an excuse for tjow development 11 add-ons' · However it is evident that it is not poss ble to discuss environmental protection wit the LDC I s com pl et el yl outside the context_of development objecti v DECLASSIFIED PA HO Department of State E O 12958 as amended June 22 2004 - 2 - The absence of Soviet Russia and the Ea stern bloc countri t s was noted at the o tset and thereafter went practically unrem rked Soviet non-partici l ation had little effect on the Conference wo k China on the $ther hand played a very visible role in the Conference Whil they· tended not to enter into substantive d s cuesions in the wor king committees and- in fact gave little evidence of havingtmuch substantive environmental competen c in their delegation it was plain that they were u s ing the Con erence to identify strongl with the Third World 11 and to establish th ir leadership in that ir egard Vhile others can doubtless apprai e their performancej better than I it is my view that they failed to win any new grqund in this respect and actually seemed to be lo ing ground at tqc end China was alone at the closing s ess on in not agreeing to ia Declaration on the Human Env illonment • __ Aside fron1 n1£rief and quite measured reply to he Chintse attack on US polic we avoided any criticism of China and en ered into no direct arg ents Chinese attacks tended to be direc ed at 1 'the superpowers and at the 11 nuclear monopolists 1 The US played a n1ajor role in the preparation for the Sto kholm Conference and inJthe Conference itself We now have an op ortunity for po itive follow-up activity For example a number of C nferencc recomn1endations 1 B _ regulation of ocean dumping contra of toxic substances are directly keyed to items in your domesti legislative program µ 'he Stockholm recom1nendations should be alled to the attention of Congress already done by cable from Stoc in the case of oce n dumping Domestic foll w-up should have an effective public di men ion There we1·e about 500 accredited private organizations at Sto kholm-many Americnn • They are anxious to participate further an this intere s t an be d'velope d f ffectively Publi c di Bcu1c s ions thi uminer and autu particularly at regional rn eetings c- an ielp provide continuin attention to the Adrninistration 1 s very pos·tive environmental pr g1·arn I have already suggested to Bill Ru kel shau s that we utilize E A' s regional organization to help this effo recognizing that number of other agencies such as Interio have a special interes Media -coverage particularly TV shoul be sought Member r of the US delegation at Stockholm such a Shirley Temple Slack have indicated their l ea dine s s to hel in such an effort DECLASSIFIED PA HO Department of State E O 12958 as amended June 22 2004 - 3 - This effort sho1 11ld get underway rapidly while public and media interest are high I also recorn mend your personal identification with the Stockholm Confere1ice at the earliest practical date I believe you should endorse the results in general term A draft statement for your consideration is attached Copy to Mr Ehrl cbman D1· Kissiinger