1.
The Evolution of Sustainable
Development
Building on the MDG foundation

2.
Sustainable Development started
in 1962
1962 : Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
1968 : Garret Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons
1972 : the Blueprint for Survival by the Ecologist magazine
1972 : the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth report
1972: The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in
Stockholm
1980: Precursor of Sustainable Development was introduced by the International
Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources (IUCN) : World Conservation
Strategy
1982: Culmination of SD "mankind is a part of nature and life depends on the
uninterrupted functioning of natural systems".
1983: The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) or the
Brundtland Commission was founded.

3.
1987: Sustainable Development was define in the document Our Common
Future as
"development that meets the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
June 1992: the first UN Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED) was held in Rio de Janeiro and adopted an agenda for environment
and development in the 21st Century. Agenda 21.
1993: UNCED instituted the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
to follow-up on the implementation of Agenda 21.
2002: the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was convened
in Johannesburg to renew the global commitment to sustainable development.
2012: Rio+20, The Future We Want
The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, which took place in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012 was the biggest UN conference ever and a
major step forward in achieving a sustainable future

4.
The World’s Biggest Promise -
from IDG to MDG in 2001

5.
MDG expire Dec 2015: varying
outcomes in different countries

6.
Anthropocene -
need of other goals
• The Anthropocene is a geological epoch
that begins when human activities started
to have a significant global impact on
Earth’s ecosystems
• Need for systematic goals and not silos

7.
We are challenging natural buffer zones

8.
SDG build on the MDG foundation
• SDG’s are action oriented, global in nature and
universally applicable.
• SDG’s take into account different national realities,
capacities and levels of development and respect
national policies and priorities.
• SDG’s build on the foundation laid by the MDGs,
seek to complete the unfinished business of the
MDGs, and respond to new challenges.

9.
Using the MDG as foundation for
new SDG

10.
The 17 SDGs – January 2016

11.
Exercise:
• What SDG is most important to your
community? what SDG is most
important/relevant to your work?
• If you could invent your own SDG for your
community, what would it be?
• How would you measure success in your
community?