Report of the World Commission on Environment and

Development

Our Common Future United Nations 1987

UNITED NATIONS

Brundtland Commission

FREDIN SCARIA MEERA SAHEB

The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment

The 1980 World Conservation Strategy of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature

The leaders of our world realized that we needed to create an organization whose sole purpose was to raise awareness of the need for sustainable development

During this time period, people in developed countries were starting to become more aware about environmental issues stemming from industrialization and growth(RACHEL CARSON'S SILENT SPRING)

HEIR

Developed countries wanted to reduce the environmental impact of their growth

On the other hand, developing countries were becoming discouraged because they were not at and could not reach the higher levels of economic growth that industrialized countries had.

Because of this need for growth, developing countries were desperate to use cheap methods with high environmental impact and unethical labour practices in their push to industrialize

The United Nations saw a growing need for an organization to address these environmental challenges which were intertwined with economic and social conditions as well

OVULATION

To rally countries to work and pursue sustainable development together, the UN decided to establish  a Commission

In December 1983 , the Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar, asked the Prime Minister of Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland, to create an organization independent of the UN to focus on environmental and developmental problems and solutions

] This new organization was the Brundtland Commission, or more formally, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). The Brundtland Commission was first headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland as Chairman and Mansour Khalid as Vice-Chairman

BIRTH

OBJECTIVE OF (WCED)1987

The brundtland commission is to unite countries to work and pursue sustainable development together.

STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES

REVIVING GROWTH

CHANGING THE QUALITY OF GROWTH

MEETING ESSENTIAL HUMAN NEEDS

ENSURING A SUSTAINABLE LEVEL OF POPULATION CONSERVING AND ENHANCING THE RESOURCE BASE

MERGING ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS IN DECISION MAKING

"A global agenda for change"

-this was what the World Commission on Environment and Development was asked to formulate

To propose long-term environmental strategies for achieving sustainable development by the year 2000 and beyond;

To recommend ways concern for greater co-operation among developing countries and between countries at different stages of economical and social development

And lead to the achievement of common and mutually supportive objectives that take account of the interrelationships between people, resources, environment, and development

To consider ways and means by which the international community can deal more effectively with environment concerns.

To help define shared perceptions of long-term environmental issues and the appropriate efforts neededprotecting and enhancing the environment.

A long term agenda for action during the coming decades, and aspirational goals for the world community.

The organization aimed to create a united international community with shared sustainability goals by identifying sustainability problems worldwide, raising awareness about them, and suggesting the implementation of solutions

Releasing first volume of  Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report, in October 1987, a document which coined, and defined the meaning of the term "Sustainable Development“

The Brundtland Commission officially dissolved in December 1987

EVOLUTION

Politicians, civil servants, and environmental experts make up the majority of the commission members

The document was the culmination of a “900 day” international-exercise which catalogued, analysed, and synthesised: written submissions and expert testimony from “senior government representatives, scientists and experts, research institutes, industrialists, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and the general public” held at public hearings throughout the world

The organization Center for Our Common Future was started in April 1988 to take the place of the Commission

“Our Common Future” strongly influenced the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 and the third UN Conference on Environment and Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002

Part I. Common Concerns1. A Threatened Future 2. Towards Sustainable Development3. The Role of the International Economy

Part II. Common Challenges4. Population and Human Resources5. Food Security: Sustaining the Potential 6. Species and Ecosystems: Resources for Development 7. Energy: Choices for Environment and Development 8. Industry: Producing More With Less

Part III. Common Endeavours9. Managing The Commons 10. Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment11. Towards Common Action: Proposals For Institutional and Legal

Change

MET WITH..

Part I. Common Concerns

1. A Threatened Future

I. Symptoms and CausesII. New Approaches to Environment and Development

2. Towards Sustainable Development

I. The Concept of Sustainable DevelopmentII. Equity and the Common InterestIII. Strategic ImperativesIV. Conclusion

3. The Role of the International Economy

I. The International Economy, the Environment, and DevelopmentII. Decline in the 1980sIII. Enabling Sustainable DevelopmentIV. A Sustainable World Economy

Part II. Common Challenge

4. Population and Human ResourcesI. The Links with Environment and DevelopmentII. The Population PerspectiveIII. A Policy Framework

5. Food Security: Sustaining the PotentialI. AchievementsII. Signs of CrisisIII. The ChallengeIV. Strategies for Sustainable Food SecurityV. Food for the Future

6. Species and Ecosystems: Resources for DevelopmentI. The Problem: Character and ExtentII. Extinction Patterns and TrendsIII. Some Causes of ExtinctionIV. Economic Values at StakeV. New Approach: Anticipate and PreventVI. International Action for National SpeciesVII. Scope for National ActionVIII. The Need for Action

7. Energy: Choices for Environment and DevelopmentI. Energy, Economy, and EnvironmentII. Fossil Fuels: The Continuing DilemmaIII. Nuclear Energy: Unsolved ProblemsIV. Wood Fuels: The Vanishing ResourceV. Renewable Energy: The Untapped PotentialVI. Energy Efficiency: Maintaining the MomentumVII. Energy Conservation MeasuresVIII. Conclusion

8. Industry: Producing More With LessI. Industrial Growth and its ImpactII. Sustainable Industrial Development in a Global ContextIII. Strategies for Sustainable Industrial Development

9. The Urban ChallengeI. The Growth of CitiesII. The Urban Challenge in Developing CountriesIII. International Cooperation

Part III. Common Endeavours

10. Managing The Commons

I. Oceans: The Balance of LifeII. Space: A Key to Planetary ManagementIII. Antarctica: Towards Global Cooperation

11. Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment

I. Environmental Stress as a Source of ConflictII. Conflict as a Cause of Unsustainable DevelopmentIII. Towards Security and Sustainable Development

12. Towards Common Action: Proposals For Institutional and Legal Change

I. The Challenge for Institutional and Legal ChangeII. Proposals for Institutional and Legal ChangeIII. A Call for Action

“...the "environment" is where we live; and "development" is what we all do in attempting to improve our lot within that abode. The two are inseparable.“

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

The three main pillars of sustainable development include economic growth, environmental protection, and social equality

IN SHORT…

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland was the former Prime Minister of Norway(served three terms)

Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health

She has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization. She now serves as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations

She was chosen due to her strong background in the sciences and public health.

In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

Our Common Future: Brundtland Report OVERVIEW *

In 1983, the United Nations Secretary-General invited Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland to chair a World Commission on Environment and Development. Concern about the acute pressure of population growth, modern technology and consumer demand on the planetary fabric had been smoldering away since the 1970s. Now a new generation of environmental worries - global warming, deforestation, species loss, toxic wastes - had begun to capture scientific and popular attention. The world's natural resources were being rapidly depleted, often in the name of development, but the poverty this development was supposed to correct was as widespread as ever.By the time the Brundtland Commission delivered its report on Our Common Future in 1987, population growth was no longer seen as the major threat to the harmony of the planet. Almost all of it was among poorer people. And it was not they who were consuming the Earth's supply of fossil fuels, warming the globe with their carbon emissions, depleting its ozone layer with their CFCs, poisoning soil and water with their chemicals, or wreaking ecological havoc with their oil spills. In fact, their consumption of the world's resources was minute compared to that of the industrialized world.Brundtland declared that poverty in the developing world was less cause than effect of contemporary environmental degradation, the outcome of insensitive technology transfer that pauperized people and natural systems. If all the world's people were to live like North Americans, a planet four times as large would be needed. Only 'sustainable' development could blend the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of air, soil, water and all forms of life - from which, ultimately, planetary stability was inseparable.

MATURITY MATRIX: SUSTAINABLE EVENT SOLUTIONS (BS 8901)

REFERENCES

United Nations Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development

UN Documents: Committee on Education of the Conference of NGOs

Wikipedia

* The Association For Gobal New Thought

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