It has been 35 years since the Brundtland report was published, so it is mind-boggling we are still waiting for a fundamental paradigm shift in development ...
It has been 35 years since the Brundtland report was published, so it is mind-boggling we are still waiting for a fundamental paradigm shift in development thinkingColourful houses sit at sea level in Reine, Norway. In 1987, former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland published a report raising grave concerns about the threatened state of the planet Earth.
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway and United Nations special envoy for climate change, speaks at a climate vulnerability event in New York, Sept. 26, 2023. Reuters file - Reuters fileOur deep insight into sustainable development, which is not a fixed state but a process of change, is still evolving. It is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary concept that draws inputs from many scientific disciplines.
It raised grave concerns about the threatened state of the planet Earth. And it brought the scale, depth, and complexity of the world's interlocked sustainability problems to the mainstream and showed how to come to grips with them before it was too late. "Many of the development paths of the industrialized nations are clearly unsustainable. And the development decisions of these countries, because of their great economic and political power, will have a profound effect on the ability of all peoples to sustain human progress for generations to come."In the report's foreword, Gro Harem Brundtland declared without mincing words that"Many of the development paths of the industrialized nations are clearly unsustainable.
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