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.

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DEBATES

Don’t Blame it on Rio

Michel Rocard

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Solar Power Off the Grid: Energy Access for World’s Poor

More than a billion people worldwide lack access to...

FOCUS

Educating women

Educating women is probably the biggest problem we face in the 21st century because it means putting right an injustice – gender inequality – and combating two of the world’s problems: overpopulation and poverty.Today, 64 % of the 860 million...

VIDEOS

05/04/2012	The feature documentary SHATTERED SKY premieres at the DC Environmental...	04/04/2012	Trailer for the documentary film THE LIGHT BULB CONSIPRACY by Cosima...
08/02/2012	The mobile phone has revolutionised the lives of the rural poor across the...	19/01/2012	1,4 billion people in the world do not have any access to electricity, ie...

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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