Our Common Future

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

 

Our Common Future (a.k.a. the Brundtland Report) was developed by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) and published in 1987. In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development. The report precluded the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro and the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development. Our Common Future is also known as the Brundtland Report in recognition of former Norwegian Prime Minister Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland's role as Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

 

This website was designed and created to pay homage to

Our Common Future. The full text of the report is

available online by clicking the link below.

 

Thank you for visiting.

Regards,

Ian M. Dunham