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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:
- the concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
- the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.’
Source: A/42/427. Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, chapter 2 (1987; http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm)
“The needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (UN World Commission on Environment & Development: Brundtland Commission, 1987). UN Sustainability goals.
