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The Brundtland Report, also known as Our Common Future, is named for the Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in her position as Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development played an important role in its writing. The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (UNWCED) was established in 1983, and working under the chairmanship of Dr. Brundtland was assigned to form “the Global Agenda for Change.” The UN General Council requested that the agenda to be formed would be as comprehensive as to cover long-term environmental strategies, international solidarity and cooperation, more efficient actions by human beings with respect to environment, and the expectations and aims of the global society.
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In the Brundtland Report, accepted after ratification by the UN General Council in 1987 and also known as “Our Common Future,” attention was called to the danger that would be created by the...
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Toprak, Z. (2013). Brundtland Report. In: Idowu, S.O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Gupta, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_247
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