Since the beginning of the 1980s, a series of independent commissions have sought to advance the cause of global cooperation. The [Independent Commission on International Development Issues] (Brandt Commission) was followed by the [Independent Commission of Disarmament and Security Issues], the [World Commission on Environment and Development] and the [South Commission]. In 1991 members of these different commissions formed the [Stockholm Initiative on Global Security and Governance] and issued a report which led, in 1992, to the establishment of the [Commission on Global Governance].This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.