Jim McNeill, pioneer sustainable development

Many of our problems stem from the way that we have traditionally organized our institutions. The world’s economy is totally interlocked with the earth’s ecology, but our institutions are not. … The most urgent task is to make our central economic, trade, and sectoral agencies directly responsible and accountable for ensuring that their policies – and the budgets they command – encourage development that is sustainable. Only in this way will the ecological dimensions of policy be considered at the same time as the economic, trade, energy, agricultural and other dimensions – on the same agendas and in the same national and international institutions.
Jim MacNeill, The Brundtland Commission
A personal reflection, 1988