Sri Lanka is still not prepared to tackle climate change issues

Maurice Strong: Godfather of climate change issues

Ever since the man credited to be the godfather of the global climate change issues, Maurice Strong, founding Director of United Nations Environment Program or UNEP, started to talk about these issues in early 1970s, it became the hot topic at many international forums.

Strong, together with Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos, submitted a report titled ‘Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet’ to the UN Conference on Environment held in Stockholm in 1972 and that was the first report on the state of the global environment or at least the doomsday predicted for environment.