List of years in the environment
# List of years in the environment

This is a list of years in the environment. The subjects relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.

    Some of the more notable events are listed here with a full list on the respective pages.

## 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 (UNFCCC) 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

       - 2010 is declared to be the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations General Assembly.
       - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico flows unabated for three months.
* 2011 - 2011 was declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2019

### 2020s

* 2020 – starting with 2020 these articles also include significant events in environmental sciences
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
