jan 1, 1987 - "Our Common Future" or "Brundtland Report"

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United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development

The Brundtland Commission's mandate was to:

- “ re-examine the critical issues of environment and development and to formulate innovative, concrete, and realistic action proposals to deal with them;
- strengthen international cooperation on environment and development and to assess and propose new forms of cooperation that can break out of existing patterns and influence policies and events in the direction of needed change; and
- raise the level of understanding and commitment to action on the part of individuals, voluntary organizations, businesses, institutes, and governments” (1987: 347). “The Commission focused its attention in the areas of population, food security, the loss of species and genetic resources, energy, industry, and human settlements - realizing that all of these are connected and cannot be treated in isolation one from another”

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