What does sustainable development mean?
The term started to be used in the 1970s and became widely known after publication of Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development, also know as the Brundtland Report after the chairman of the Commission, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway. It described sustainable development as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Since then it has been widely quoted and adopted but also extensively abused by using ‘sustainable’ in front of all sorts of inappropriate words.
