List of years in the environment

List of years

1920s

• 1927

  1940s

• 1948

  1950s

• 1954

  1960s

• 1962 - Silent Spring, the widely acclaimed book by Rachel Carson which documented the effects of indiscriminate use of pesticides, is published.
• 1963
• 1964
• 1965
• 1968
• 1969

  1970s

• 1970
• 1971
• 1972 - The Limits to Growth was published. The book is about the computer modelling of unchecked economic and population growth with finite resource supplies, and became both controversial and influential.
• 1973
• 1974
• 1975
• 1976 - Ongoing oil spills began in Nigeria leading to various environmental issues in the Niger Delta.
• 1977
• 1978 - The Amoco Cadiz oil spill occurred on the coast of Brittany resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.
• 1979 - The Three Mile Island accident, a partial nuclear meltdown that released radioactive material, occurred in the United States.

  1980s

• 1980
• 1981
• 1982
• 1983
• 1984
• 1985 - the International Tropical Timber Agreement enters into force.
• 1986 - the Chernobyl disaster, a catastrophic nuclear accident, occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
• 1987
• 1988 - the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer enters into force.
• 1989 - the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

  1990s

• 1990
• 1991
• 1992
• 1993 - the Convention on Biological Diversity, known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, enters into force. It is an international legally binding treaty.
• 1994 - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
• 1995
• 1996
• 1997
• 1998
• 1999

  2000s

• 2000
• 2001
• 2002 - the World Summit on Sustainable Development, WSSD or Earth Summit 2002 took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss sustainable development by the United Nations.
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009

  2010s

• 2010
• 2011 - 2011 was declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2019

  2020s

• 2020