Brundtland Commission

Dans le prolongement de l'adoption de ce document, la Charte mondiale de la nature, qui est adoptée en 1982 par l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies, va reconnaître la nécessité de protéger la viabilité génétique de la Terre.

En 1987, les conclusions du rapport Brundtland vont dans le même sens.

Le Programme des Nations unies pour l'environnement organise alors différentes réunions d'experts dont l'essentiel de la future convention va émerger.

Les négociations, elles débutent formellement en 1988 et la Convention sur la diversité biologique, la CDB, est finalement adoptée en mai 1992 à Nairobi.

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So it's a word that's evolved over time and it's incredibly broad.

And I really still like the Brundtland definition from the 80s.

I don't know if you've heard that, but it's essentially one that says that sustainable development is about meeting the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

And I do think that's a really good starting point.

One of the first things we ask our tutees to do is to come up with a definition of sustainability and to do some research into what the definitions are.

And there's a very famous one by Brundtland which says, and I've paraphrased slightly, satisfying the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow and future generations.

which i think is a very neat way of saying we need resources we need people we need ways of doing business we need ways of existing now but we should always be mindful of the impact that has on on future generations and to me it's very strategic for an organization it's absolutely central to how you as an organization see your role in the world today and your impacts on the world and the impacts of the world on you, but also thinking about what that means in the long term.

And all businesses, all organisations want to be successful in the long term.

Sustainability is an intra-human category.

It is defined by the Brundtland Commission as one generation of humans leaving the world in a better state for the next generation of humans.

It is a human-centered.

So you're actually writing human-centered history.

In man- many ways, I'm still working on exactly the same thing.

My passion, and it's my passion for about 30 years now, has been on how do we get people in government, in local authorities, in businesses, in the general population, to understand that we need policies that reflect the Brundtland definition of sustainable development, development that meets the needs of the present without compromising on the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

And that has probably guided all my work.

It's guided it as a politician.