abstract:The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government, and Northern Ireland Executive on sustainable development.
An influential friend of the Prince of Wales, Porritt is now the prime minister's chief adviser on the environment as chairman of the government's sustainabledevelopmentcommission.
In Great Britain the chairman of the government's SustainableDevelopmentCommission is openly receptive to the idea of limiting the number of children couples are permitted to have.