Sustainable development

The most concrete definition of sustainable development is given by de Brundtland Commission in the report ‘Our Common Future’. . This report describes sustainable development as follows:

"A development that fulfils the needs of the current generation without jeopardising the needs of future generations.'
This definition clearly speaks of present and future. Fulfilling everyone’s basic needs (e.g. poverty reduction and development aid) without burdening future generations with e.g. depleted energy resources and mountains of radioactive waste."

The modern human lifestyle leads to an abundance of problems on social, economical and environmental level. Sustainability can only be reached by combining the social, economical and environmental aspects into the solution. These 3 aspects are often referred to as the 3 P’s (People, Planet and Profit).