Our Common Future (a.k.a. the Brundtland Report) was developed by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) and published in 1987.

Its targets were multilateralism and interdependence of nations in the search for a sustainable development path. The report sought to recapture the spirit of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the Stockholm Conference - which had introduced environmentalOur Common Future placed environmental issues firmly on the political agenda; it aimed to discuss the environment and development as one single issue.
concerns to the formal political development sphere.

In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development. The report precluded the convening of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro and the establishment of the Commission on Sustainable Development. Our Common Future is also known as the Brundtland Report in recognition of former Norwegian Prime Minister Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland's role as Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

In addition, key contributions of Our Common Future to the concept of sustainable development include the recognition that the many crises facing the planet are interlocking crises that are elements of a single crisis of the whole and of the vital need for the active participation of all sectors of society in consultation and decisions relating to sustainable development.

The website below was designed and created to pay homage to "Our Common Future". The full text of the report is available there.