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...Brundtland is chair of the World Commission on Environmental Development, which in 1987 released an environmental report entitled "Our Common Future." Although the United Nations chose not to adopt the measures described in the report, "Our Common Future" did stimulate interest in international cooperation concerning environmental matters...
This international attention led to a series of environmental meetings across the globe, culminating in an international Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brundtland comes to Cambridge directly from the summit and is expected to address the graduates about balancing economic growth and ecological well-being...
Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy is Brundtland's faculty escort for today. McElroy, who chairs a newly created University-wide committee on environmental studies, first met Brundtland when both were speakers at a Canadian symposium four years...
...said Brundtland's United Nations report is "a far-looking document" which makes the point "that national boundaries are not respected by environmental considerations...
According to McElroy, Brundtland later implemented a specific proposal made by McElroy in his speech. "She's taking [the Harvard mencement speech] very seriously," he said."It's a potentially major speech...