Brundtland Report, Our Common Future,WCED {Report}

Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: “A global agenda for change”

The Brundtland Report, also called Our Common Future, was released in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), and introduced the concept of sustainable development and described how it could be achieved.

Sponsored by the United Nations (UN) and chaired by Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, the WCED explored the causes of environmental degradation, attempted to understand the interconnections between social equity, economic growth, and environmental problems, and developed policy solutions that integrated all three areas.