“ Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The concept of sustainable development does imply limits - not absolute limits but limitations imposed by the present state of technology and social organization on environmental resources and by the ability of the biosphere to absorb the effects of human activities.
from “Our Common Future”, otherwise known as The Brundtland Report, published by the United Nations Word Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. It defined sustainable development in international politics and paved the way for action on it at the 1992 Earth Summit and beyond.
Tom Youngman
Co-founder of Green Vision: The Bath Youth Climate Movement, member of the Department for Energy and Climate Change's Youth Advisory Panel and member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition's delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations. Human being and active citizen. thomas@youngman.me.uk.
