the Secretary General asked me to lead a new international initiative um to look at all the environmental threats the population growth poverty basically everything across the world and I said look I am the party leader I am the leader of the opposition at that time how can I do that he said you are the only environment Minister that have become Prime Minister I understood he was right I had no alternative approach to give him and suggest so I had to try to do my best now in that group that I put together the commission that
we called the world Commission on environment and development I insisted that development had to be as important as environment if we ever were going to solve the puzzle of the future in that commission I appoint appointed more than half of the Commissioners coming from the developing World which was new no International commission had been like that before but I knew this is a global challenge not a western or the northern challenge in that group as we analyzed the problems of the world we came up with sustainable development as the concept that we believed covered the
awareness and the future and the recommendations that we G
