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The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, or the Stockholm Declaration, was adopted on June 16, 1972 by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5-16, 1972. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was the first global environmental conference, which had the purpose of providing guidelines for the protection and promotion of the human environment. This Conference signaled the first attempt to review the global human impact on the environment and to create the common goal of preserving the human environment. The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, or the Stockholm Declaration, was the outcome of this conference. The declaration offers general environmental policy goals and broad objectives for protecting the environment and preventing environmental impairment. The final decaration consists of a preamble, containing seven introductory proclaimations, and 26 principles. Although not formally legally binding, this Declaration both reflected international customary legal principles for environmental protections and developed a foundation for additional environmental activism. Future international environmental declarations, such as the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, were made possible by the foundation built by the Stockholm Declaration.