Brundtland Commission

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), named for its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland and convened in 1983, primarily ‘to propose long-term environmental strategies for achieving sustainable development to the year 2000’.

Earth summit,
Stockholm conference,
sustainable development,
World conservation strategy

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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