Sustainable development

ISSUES

Sustainable development

In March 1987, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Norwegian prime minister, gave the United Nations a report entitled Our common future. The text introduced the term “sustainable development” which had not been used very much until then. The concept was defined as follows: « Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.»
This text follows many others, amongst which we can note the Meadows report, published in 1972 by the Club of Rome entitled Limits to growth.. It was published the year the Stockholm conference took place; it was already trying to reconcile the environment and economic development.

NEWS

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FRANCE - PARIS - Une nouvelle stratégie nationale de développement durable (SNDD), portant sur des secteurs aussi divers que...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Farmers in the US are getting excited about miniature cattle that are less than a metre tall – and may be the future of...

FRANCE - PARIS - Findus France a supprimé l'huile de palme, très décriée sur le plan de la santé et de l'environnement, de tous...

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DEBATES

World Cup: environmental red card?

Nathalie Durand

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Ecological debt in Africa

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INITIATIVE

Macadam: Le magazine coup de pouce

« De la qualité, pas la charité ! » C’est avec une ligne éditoriale dynamique et attrayante que Macadam a été relancé en 2009. Premier journal de rue francophone, ce mensuel a vu le jour, il y a seize ans, sous l’impulsion d’un Belge dont le nom...

VIDEOS

28/07/2010	Une entreprise alsacienne s’est spécialisée dans le nettoyage écolo. Cela...	15/07/2010	Dans An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore montre les problèmes environnementaux...
30/06/2010	Futerra bring their confessional booth to Glastonbury to ease the...	28/06/2010	The Al Basama Al Beeiya (or UAE Ecological Footprint) is a federal...

GREEN TIPS

Fighting Child Labour

In Morocco, UNICEF and its partners are trying to reduce the number of children who work in the craft...

INDICATORS

GDP per capita
Human Development Index (HDI)
Ratio of richest 10% to poorest 10%
Gender gap

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