History
Stakeholder Forum was initially set up in 1987, as the first National Committee for the United Nations Environment Programme and was called the United Nations Environment Programme-UK (UNEP-UK). It was hosted by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) from 1987 to 1992. In 1993 after the Rio Earth Summit it reformed as a multi-stakeholder body to reflect the Major Group concept in Agenda 21 It renamed itself the United Nations Environment and Development–UK Committee and was housed in the United Nations Association UK office in London. It acted as the National Committee for UNEP in the UK and the first Northern Focal Point for UNDP from 1993 to 2000. In 2000 it became an international multi-stakeholder organization called Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future.
In October 2004 Stakeholder Forum became, after seventeen years, a free-standing organization in its own right. It took the opportunity to rename itself, feeling that Stakeholder Forum for a Common Future looked back to the Brundtland Report in 1987, while Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future looked forward.
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