UN Under-Secretary Maurice Strong Hand Signed FDC From 1967

  
Under-Secretary General Maurice Strong Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1967. 29, 1929 - November 27, 2015 was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a. Had his start as an entrepreneur in the Alberta oil patch and was President. In the early 1970s he was Secretary General. United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Then became the first executive director of the.

Become Chief Executive Officer of. One of North America's largest power utilities.

Was national president and chairman of the Extension Committee of the World. World Commission on Environment and.

In 1986 and was recognised by the. Union for Conservation of Nature. As a leader in the.

Was President of the Council of the. More recently Strong was an active honorary professor at. And honorary chairman of its. He was chairman of the advisory board for the. Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia. Died at the age of 86 in 2015.

First met with a leading UN official in 1947 who arranged for him to have a. Temporary low-level appointment, to serve as a junior. At the UN headquarters in. Directed the founding of the. Commissioned a report on the state of the planet.

Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet. The report summarized the findings of 152 leading. Experts from 58 countries in preparation for the first UN meeting on the. Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972.

This was the world's first state. The Stockholm Conference established the. Environment as part of an international development agenda.

Establishment by the UN General Assembly in December 1972 of the. And the election of Strong to head. UNEP was the first UN agency to be headquartered in the. As head of UNEP, Strong convened the first. International expert group meeting on climate change.

Strong was one of the. Commissioners of the World Commission on Environment and Development, set up as. An independent body by the United Nations in 1983.