The Sierra Club said it welcomed any proposal that would "address the growing conflictbetween trade and the environment, " but wanted to see the specifics.
In a geostrategic environment where conflict continues to persist between advanced militaries and their substandard adversaries--either rogue states or terror cells--the latter have been forced to develop asymmetric ways of challenging the superior with the inferior.
The Brundtland Commission, formally called the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), was established to resolve a conflictbetween economic and environmental ministers.