The 1987 Brundtland Report (published under the title Our Common Future) is a document that significantly contributed to raising public awareness of the term sustainable development. The report was named after Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway and the leader of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), who commissioned it. Its definition of sustainable development as “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”(1) still frames the understanding of the term today. Importantly, the Brundtland Report also highlighted that sustainable development “is not a fixed state of harmony” but “a process of change” in which the respect for finite resources of the planet, global equality, equity and well-being, are the main drivers of any investments, technological innovation, political systems and organizational policies.
BRUNDTLAND REPORT
