- Setting the Agenda for ESD beyond 2014 (“What are the strategies for our common future?”) The 2014 World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development will carry out a stock-taking of the implementation of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) and celebrate the Decade's achievements.
After a decade and a half of a standstill or even deterioration in global co-operation, I believe the time has come for higher expectations, for common goals pursued together, for an increased political will to address our common future.
Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and ...
Also known as the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future was published in 1987 with the aim of reaffirming the spirit of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the Stockholm Conference.
Common ethical principles and observed human behaviour lead to the conclusion that many of us tend to care most deeply for those closest to us in time and space, e.g. our immediate family, friends, and those from groups we identify with. How can we be expected to care about the fate of distant future generations – especially if it requires significant sacrifices from us and our children ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine: Global Change and Our Common Future: Papers from a Forum
insider.si.edu: Global change and our common future : papers from a forum / Ruth S. DeFries and Thomas F. Malone, editors
"Committee on Global Change, National Research Council." Proceedings of the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future, held on May 2-3, 1989, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., and ...