1 Environment Impact Assessment of Development Projects: An Analysis of the existing law with special reference to Tribal Areas in India By : Shubham Jain on 30 April 2014 INTERNATIONAL TREATIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The United Nations, through its conference on the Human environment held at Stockholm in 1972, realized the need to protect and improve the Human environment for the well-being of peoples, and economic development throughout the world.[1] It advised all the nations to adopt an integrated and coordinated approach to their development planning. This would ensure development is compatible with the need to protect, and improve the environment[2], for the benefit of their populations.[3] It also directed them to carefully devise appropriate planning and management of their natural resources for the benefit of their present and future generations.[4]More recently, the World Commission on Environment and Development[5], headed by Gro Horlem Brudtland, and the Rio Declaration on Human Declaration on Environment and Development,[6] have drawn the attention of the international community to the critical relationship between environment and development and have, in fact given a global perspective of environmentally compatible development. The Rio Declaration contemplates a „sustainable development‟[7]. It proclaims that the right to development must be equitable to the developmental and environmental needs of present and /future generations.[8] It insists that environmental protection must constitute an integral part of the development process.[9] It also appeals to all nations to conserve, protect and restore the health and integrity of the Earth‟s ecosystem[10], and to reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption to achieve sustainable development and a higher quality of life for all the people.[11] It like the Stockholm Declaration, directs all nations to enact effective environmental legislation;[12] to develop their