WCED 1987(World Commission on Environment and
Development)
Brundtland Report/Our Common Future
Important landmark (SY)
Definition of term (earlier no real consensus)
Official UN Definition of SD
‘development which meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs’ Rio Summit 1992 – 1st authoritative set of UN
principles of SD which reached consensus amongst a majority
of nations