Definition: Sustainable development

Category: Environment

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/brundtland_report.pdf
Source:
United Nations, Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, "Our Common Future" (also known as the "Brundtland Report"), Forty-second session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1987
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