1. In May 2007, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos (the former president of Chile), and Han Seung-soo (the former foreign minister of South Korea), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

2. Soon after President Ricardo Lagos took office in 2000, there was a scandal because several dozen public officials who had served in state companies during the previous administration Cashed in on generous redundancy pay before simply being relocated to another state job.