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Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report, was published in October 1987 by the United Nations through the Oxford University Press. This publication was in recognition of Gro Harlem Brundtland , former Norwegian Prime Minister and Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED).
The Brundtland Report in 1987 helped to make the concept of sustainable development better known. Sustainable development overlaps with the idea of sustainability which is a normative concept . [ 5 ]
The Brundtland Commission Report recognized that human resource development in the form of poverty reduction, gender equity, and wealth redistribution was crucial to formulating strategies for environmental conservation and that environmental limits to economic growth in industrialized and industrializing societies existed.
The commission's 1987 Brundtland Report provided a definition of sustainable development. The report, Our Common Future, defines it as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". [24] [25] The report helped bring sustainability into the mainstream of policy ...
4 Brundtland Report. 5 Structure. 6 Sustainability Efforts. Toggle Sustainability Efforts subsection. 6.1 Economic Growth. 6.2 Environmental Protection. 6.3 Social ...
James William MacNeill, OC (April 22, 1928 – March 5, 2016) was a Canadian consultant, environmentalist, and international public servant. [1]He was Director of Environment at OECD in Paris (1978–1984), Secretary General of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) and lead author of its landmark report Our Common Future (1984–1987), [2] and member and ...
Usually, the answers given go in the line of sustainable development, which the Brundtland report defines as ''development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs''. [13] The ‘gospel of eco-efficiency’ usually defends economic growth, but not at any cost. [5]
The Global SDG Index and Dashboards Report is the first publication to track countries' performance on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [168] The annual publication, co-produced by Bertelsmann Stiftung and SDSN, includes a ranking and dashboards that show key challenges for each country in terms of implementing the SDGs. The publication ...