The document summarizes the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), also known as the Brundtland Commission. The Commission was established in 1983 by the United Nations to address growing environmental concerns and their connection to economic and social issues. The Commission's 1987 report, Our Common Future, introduced the concept of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The report examined major environmental issues and proposed strategies for governments and international organizations to pursue sustainable development.

1. UNITED NATIONS
Report of the
World Commission on Environment and Development
Brundtland Commission
Our Common Future
United Nations 1987
FREDIN SCARIA MEERA SAHEB

2. HEIR
The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human
Environment
The 1980 World Conservation Strategy of
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
The leaders of our world realized that we needed to create
an organization whose sole purpose was to raise awareness
of the need for sustainable development
 During this time period, people in developed countries
were starting to become more aware about environmental
issues stemming from industrialization and growth
(RACHEL CARSON'S SILENT SPRING)

3. OVULATION
Developed countries wanted to reduce the environmental
impact of their growth
On the other hand, developing countries were becoming
discouraged because they were not at and could not reach the
higher levels of economic growth that industrialized countries
had.
Because of this need for growth, developing countries were
desperate to use cheap methods with high environmental
impact and unethical labour practices in their push to
industrialize
The United Nations saw a growing need for an organization
to address these environmental challenges which were
intertwined with economic and social conditions as well

4. BIRTH
To rally countries to work and pursue sustainable development
together, the UN decided to establish a Commission
In December 1983 , the Secretary General of the United
Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar, asked the Prime Minister of
Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland,
to create an organization independent of the UN to focus on
environmental and developmental problems and solutions
] This new organization was the Brundtland Commission, or more
formally, the World Commission on Environment and Development
(WCED). The Brundtland Commission was first headed by Gro
Harlem Brundtland as Chairman and Mansour Khalid as Vice-
Chairman

5. OBJECTIVE OF (WCED)1987
The brundtland commission is to
unite countries to work and pursue
sustainable development together.

6. STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
REVIVING GROWTH
CHANGING THE QUALITY OF GROWTH
MEETING ESSENTIAL HUMAN NEEDS
ENSURING A SUSTAINABLE LEVEL OF POPULATION
CONSERVING AND ENHANCING THE RESOURCE
BASE
MERGING ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICS IN
DECISION MAKING

7. "A global agenda for change"
-this was what the World Commission on Environment and Development was
asked to formulate
 To propose long-term environmental strategies for achieving
sustainable development by the year 2000 and beyond;
 To recommend ways concern for greater co-operation among developing
countries and between countries at different stages of economical and
social development
And lead to the achievement of common and mutually supportive objectives
that take account of the interrelationships between people, resources,
environment, and development

8. To consider ways and means by which the international
community can deal more effectively with environment
concerns.
 To help define shared perceptions of long-term
environmental issues and the appropriate efforts needed
protecting and enhancing the environment.
A long term agenda for action during the coming
decades, and aspirational goals for the world community.

9. EVOLUTION
 The organization aimed to create a united international
community with shared sustainability goals by identifying
sustainability problems worldwide, raising awareness about
them, and suggesting the implementation of solutions
 Releasing first volume of Our Common Future, also known as
the Brundtland Report, in October 1987, a document which coined,
and defined the meaning of the term "Sustainable Development“
 The Brundtland Commission officially dissolved in December
1987

10. Politicians, civil servants, and environmental experts make up the
majority of the commission members
The document was the culmination of a “900 day” international-exercise
which catalogued, analysed, and synthesised: written
submissions and expert testimony from “senior government
representatives, scientists and experts, research institutes,
industrialists, representatives of non-governmental organizations,
and the general public” held at public hearings throughout the world
The organization Center for Our Common Future was started in
April 1988 to take the place of the Commission
“Our Common Future” strongly influenced the Earth Summit in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 and the third UN Conference on
Environment and Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002

11. MET WITH..
Part I. Common Concerns
1. A Threatened Future
2. Towards Sustainable Development
3. The Role of the International Economy
Part II. Common Challenges
1. Population and Human Resources
2. Food Security: Sustaining the Potential
3. Species and Ecosystems: Resources for Development
4. Energy: Choices for Environment and Development
5. Industry: Producing More With Less
Part III. Common Endeavours
1. Managing The Commons
2. Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment
3. Towards Common Action: Proposals For Institutional and Legal Change

12. Part I. Common Concerns
1. A Threatened Future
I. Symptoms and Causes
II. New Approaches to Environment and Development
2. Towards Sustainable Development
I. The Concept of Sustainable Development
II. Equity and the Common Interest
III. Strategic Imperatives
IV. Conclusion
3. The Role of the International Economy
I. The International Economy, the Environment, and Development
II. Decline in the 1980s
III. Enabling Sustainable Development
IV. A Sustainable World Economy

13. Part II. Common Challenge
4. Population and Human Resources
I. The Links with Environment and Development
II. The Population Perspective
III. A Policy Framework
5. Food Security: Sustaining the Potential
I. Achievements
II. Signs of Crisis
III. The Challenge
IV. Strategies for Sustainable Food Security
V. Food for the Future
6. Species and Ecosystems: Resources for Development
I. The Problem: Character and Extent
II. Extinction Patterns and Trends
III. Some Causes of Extinction
IV. Economic Values at Stake
V. New Approach: Anticipate and Prevent
VI. International Action for National Species
VII. Scope for National Action
VIII. The Need for Action

14. 7. Energy: Choices for Environment and Development
I. Energy, Economy, and Environment
II. Fossil Fuels: The Continuing Dilemma
III. Nuclear Energy: Unsolved Problems
IV. Wood Fuels: The Vanishing Resource
V. Renewable Energy: The Untapped Potential
VI. Energy Efficiency: Maintaining the Momentum
VII. Energy Conservation Measures
VIII. Conclusion
8. Industry: Producing More With Less
I. Industrial Growth and its Impact
II. Sustainable Industrial Development in a Global Context
III. Strategies for Sustainable Industrial Development
9. The Urban Challenge
I. The Growth of Cities
II. The Urban Challenge in Developing Countries
III. International Cooperation

15. Part III. Common Endeavours
10. Managing The Commons
I. Oceans: The Balance of Life
II. Space: A Key to Planetary Management
III. Antarctica: Towards Global Cooperation
11. Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment
I. Environmental Stress as a Source of Conflict
II. Conflict as a Cause of Unsustainable Development
III. Towards Security and Sustainable Development
12. Towards Common Action: Proposals For
Institutional and Legal Change
I. The Challenge for Institutional and Legal Change
II. Proposals for Institutional and Legal Change
III. A Call for Action

16. IN SHORT…
“...the "environment" is where we live; and "development" is what we all do in attempting to improve our
lot within that abode. The two are inseparable.“
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
The three main pillars of sustainable development include economic growth, environmental protection,
and social equality

17. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland was the former Prime Minister of
Norway(served three terms)
Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat,
and physician, and an international leader in sustainable
development and public health
She has served as the Director General of the World
Health Organization. She now serves as a Special Envoy
on Climate Change for the United Nations
She was chosen due to her strong background in the
sciences and public health.
In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

18. Our Common Future: Brundtland Report OVERVIEW *
In 1983, the United Nations Secretary-General invited Norwegian prime minister
Gro Harlem Brundtland to chair a World Commission on Environment and
Development. Concern about the acute pressure of population growth, modern
technology and consumer demand on the planetary fabric had been smoldering
away since the 1970s. Now a new generation of environmental worries - global
warming, deforestation, species loss, toxic wastes - had begun to capture
scientific and popular attention. The world's natural resources were being rapidly
depleted, often in the name of development, but the poverty this development
was supposed to correct was as widespread as ever.
By the time the Brundtland Commission delivered its report on Our Common
Future in 1987, population growth was no longer seen as the major threat to
the harmony of the planet. Almost all of it was among poorer people. And it
was not they who were consuming the Earth's supply of fossil fuels, warming
the globe with their carbon emissions, depleting its ozone layer with their
CFCs, poisoning soil and water with their chemicals, or wreaking ecological
havoc with their oil spills. In fact, their consumption of the world's resources
was minute compared to that of the industrialized world.
Brundtland declared that poverty in the developing world was less cause than
effect of contemporary environmental degradation, the outcome of insensitive
technology transfer that pauperized people and natural systems. If all the
world's people were to live like North Americans, a planet four times as large
would be needed. Only 'sustainable' development could blend the fulfillment of
human needs with the protection of air, soil, water and all forms of life - from
which, ultimately, planetary stability was inseparable.

19. MATURITY MATRIX: SUSTAINABLE EVENT SOLUTIONS (BS 8901)

22. REFERENCES
United Nations Report of the World Commission on Environment
and Development
UN Documents: Committee on Education of the Conference of NGOs
Wikipedia
* The Association For Gobal New Thought

24. Fredin Scaria