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44.4 Solar Prize, Handcuffs and PlusEnergy Buildings
44.4.1 Swiss Solar Prize and Handcuffs
44.4.1.1 Solar utilisation: from traffic to building sector
The first UN Conference on Environment in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
cast its shadow already in advance. In 1987, the Norwegian Prime
Minister and physician, Gro Harlem Brundtland, from the Social
Democratic Party was elected as chairman of the UN Conference
on Environment and Development.
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With the prevailing subjects of
“forest decline” and “acid rain” Brundtland succeeded in globalising
the term of sustainability and to sensitise the countries of the
Conference ...