Convergence of Maoist Environmental Diplomacy and Latin American in Stockholm, 1972

Abstract

This article argues that the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm shaped a new global environmental regime that had been emerging since the 1950s in the context of the global post-Cold War, a regime characterized by transnational scientific and discursive exchanges to address the evidence of environmental problems that transcended national borders. In the constitution of this regime, Maoist and Global South environmental diplomacy played a central role, challenging the epistemological hegemony and political power of the Global North. Thus, the Stockholm Conference, as a field of dispute, learning, and reflection, opened up new challenges and possibilities for addressing global challenges and North-South and South-South cooperation initiatives.