Sustainable Development

The concept of Sustainable Development represents the totality of the forms and methods of development at the social-economical level, whose is based, first of all by the balance, between these social systems and elements of the natural capital.

The Sustainable Development is the development which corresponds to the needs of the present, without compromising the possibility for future generations to satisfy their own needs. Brundtland Report, 1987

 

The concept of Sustainable Development began to be well-known only after the Conference on environment and development organized by the United Nations at Rio De Janeiro, known as the Earth Summit. This resulted in the signing of several conventions on climate changes, biological diversity and the ending of massive disforestation. At the same time was also created the Agenda 21 - the plan for supporting Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development has also become an objective for the European Union, starting with 1997 when it was included in the Maastricht Treaty, and in 2001 at the Goteborg Summit was adopted the European Union's Strategy for sustainable development, to which an external dimension was added at Barcelona 2002.

In 2009, the Government in Copenhagen has offered many nations the chance to be receptive to the concrete measures that can be taken for reducing the impact of human activities on the ecosystem. These summits difficultly lead to the signing of a common view but with no specific details regarding its application, until cartoons of the great powers uninterested in global warming appeared.

Many documentaries have discussed from a future perspective the day dedicated to this subject, and they noted the need to establish common measures for limiting man's actions and their impact on nature.

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