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Brundtland Report

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Brundtland Report

The findings of the World Commission on Environment and Development, published in 1987 as Our Common Future. It stressed the necessity of environmental protection and popularized the phrase ‘sustainable development’. The commission was chaired by the Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.


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All 10 to 15 hope to enjoy our level of luxury someday, and indeed the Brundtland report states its goal to be exactly that (WCED, 1987).
The Rio "Earth Summit", the second in a series of UN conferences, had three major results: the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21, which was seen by many observers as a prescription leading to, if properly applied, sustainable development, a term already found in the Brundtland Report.
Brundtland reports that "her attitudes in many respects echoed my own social-democratic approach.
 
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