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    Sustainable development first formed the basis of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where over 100 heads of state drew up action plans. The concept originated from concerns raised in previous decades that human activity was negatively impacting the planet and patterns of growth would become unsustainable. It received early recognition at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and was defined in the 1987 Brundtland Commission report as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Major world leaders then recognized sustainable development as a key challenge at the 1992 Rio Summit.

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    Sustainable development first formed the basis of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where over 100 heads of state drew up action plans. The concept originated from concerns raised in previous decades that human activity was negatively impacting the planet and patterns of growth would become unsustainable. It received early recognition at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and was defined in the 1987 Brundtland Commission report as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Major world leaders then recognized sustainable development as a key challenge at the 1992 Rio Summit.

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    Sustainable development first formed the basis of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where over 100 heads of state drew up action plans. The concept originated from concerns raised in previous decades that human activity was negatively impacting the planet and patterns of growth would become unsustainable. It received early recognition at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and was defined in the 1987 Brundtland Commission report as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Major world leaders then recognized sustainable development as a key challenge at the 1992 Rio Summit.

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    History of SD

    The concept of sustainable development formed the basis of the United


    Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro
    in 1992. The summit marked the first international attempt to draw up
    action plans and strategies for moving towards a more sustainable pattern of
    development. It was attended by over 100 Heads of State and
    representatives from 178 national governments. The Summit was also
    attended by representatives from a range of other organisations
    representing civil society. Sustainable development was the solution to the
    problems of environmental degradation discussed by the Brundtland
    Commission in the 1987 report Our Common Future.

    The remit of the Brundtland Report was to investigate the numerous


    concerns that had been raised in previous decades, namely, that human
    activity was having severe and negative impacts on the planet, and that
    patterns of growth and development would be unsustainable if they
    continued unchecked. Key works that highlighted this thinking included
    Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), Garret Hardin's Tragedy of the
    Commons (1968), the Blueprint for Survival by the Ecologist magazine
    (1972) and the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth report (1972).

    The concept of sustainable development received its first major international


    recognition in 1972 at the UN Conference on the Human Environment held in
    Stockholm. The term was not referred to explicitly, but nevertheless the
    international community agreed to the notion - now fundamental to
    sustainable development - that both development and the environment,
    hitherto addressed as separate issues, could be managed in a mutually
    beneficial way.

    The term was popularised 15 years later in Our Common Future, the report
    of the World Commission on Environment and Development, which included
    what is deemed the 'classic' definition of sustainable development:
    "development which meets the needs of the present without compromising
    the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

    It was not until the Rio Summit, however, that major world leaders
    recognised sustainable development as the major challenge it remains
    today.

    More recently, the World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in


    Johannesburg in 2002, attended by 191 national governments, UN agencies,
    multilateral financial institutions and other major groups to assess progress
    since Rio. The Johannesburg Summit delivered three key outcomes: a
    political declaration, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, and a range
    of partnership initiatives. Key commitments included those on sustainable
    consumption and production, water and sanitation, and energy.

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