Mrs Brundtland said public health was a key factor in improving poverty and had been underfunded.
The Sustainability Frontier was established in 1982 as a creation of the diplomats working with the Brundtland Commission.
By the time the convention was adopted, in early 2003, Yach and Brundtland had turned their attention to the food industry.
Policy resolutions, too, have a tendency to appear from nowhere, as happened at the executive board meeting that anointed Dr Brundtland.
The Brundtland Commission, formally called the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), was established to resolve a conflict between economic and environmental ministers.
And poverty affected the developed countries too, said Mrs Brundtland.
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland calls for ending discriminatory practices such as child marriage, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu points out the important role of men and boys in achieving gender equality for girls and women.
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The opinion polls make particularly bad reading for the Labour Party and its minority government, led by Thorbjorn Jagland, who took over from Gro Harlem Brundtland as party leader and prime minister last October.
Speaking in Brussels, Gro Harlem Brundtland - the UN's special envoy on climate change - suggested there would now be a twin-track approach, with some of the important discussions taking place outside the UNFCCC umbrella.
Certainly Dr Brundtland's previous assembly of wise folk, the World Commission on Environment and Development, did much to persuade companies and countries that investing in sustainable development was not just good for the environment, but might yield economic returns too.
Thanks largely to the World Health Organisation, now at last playing a useful role under the leadership of Gro Harlem Brundtland, a Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation has been set up, with backing, financial as well as verbal, from philanthropists such as Microsoft's Bill Gates.
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