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The Stockholm Declaration marked the start of a dialogue between industrialized and developing countries on the link between economic growth, the pollution of the air, water, and oceans and the wellbeing of people around the world. [...] president of the International Science Trained in the biological sciences and more Council and founding chair of the at ease as a professor in Malaysia than in International Network for Governmental the plenary hall of the UN Environment Science Advice (INGSA), science advice Programme headquarters in Nairobi, I was requires a pluralistic synthesis of evidence, thrown into the world of diplomacy a. [...] leaders of the Global South in a category During this period the tools of the known as the Group of 77 and China, trade came into regular use: aligning with articulating the needs of and protecting the the positions of ASEAN, the G77 and China, interest of the developing countries. [...] The vision is to position the university as a leader in science diplomacy and sustainability for the betterment of Malaysia's interests and those of Asean's and the Global South's. [...] We on Biodiversity and are the Nobel Peace Prize- try to promote a dialogue Ecosystem Services.  winning Intergovernmental between the knowledge Panel on Climate Change generators (researchers and the Nobel Peace and academics) and Prize-nominated political leaders and decision-makers in the civil Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on service and the corporate sector to encourage the Biodiv.