The paper is based on a talk given to a Cambridge seminar in May 1996. It is a personal reflection, looking back on the author's many years service in the Department of the Environment, and forward to prospects for the environment and sustainable development up to the end of the century and beyond. •* Derek Osborn, CB, was a civil servant at the Department of the Environment from 1970 to 1995 and was Director General of Environment Protection from 1990 to 1995. He is currently a visiting

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... at Green College, Oxford, Chairman of the European Environment Agency; Board member of the Environment Agency for England and Wales; Chairman of UNED/UK, and of the Earth Centre.