My contribution to a panel at the Rio Climate Action Week
Can be watched here. I had the pleasure of working with Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss on the 2012 book Only One Earth The Long Road via Rio+20 to Sustainable Development At the launch of the Only One Earth book 2012 2015 – ten years ago, we had one of the most significant positive years for sustainable development with the agreement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals, and of course, the Paris Climate Agreement. Both are based on the huge work that Maurice Strong did in his life. Raising the issue of climate change in the 1972 Stockholm Environment Conference and with other members of the Brundtland Commission, giving the vision which underpinned the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which he was the Secretary General of. Maurice Strong saw the limitations of the intergovernmental process. The nine chapters of Agenda 21 gave rights and responsibilities to key stakeholders, and to underpin this, he envisioned the Earth Charter as a...