At the 38th session of the UN General Assembly held December 19, 1983, they approved [38/161] a May 23, 1983 decision adopted by the 11th Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme‘s (UNEP), thei resolution titled “Process of preparation of the Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond” [6]. UNEP recommended the UN establishment of a “Special Commission” to “make available a report on environment and the global problamatique to the year 2000 and beyond, including proposed strategies for sustainable development” The report was to be completed “within a period of two years from its establishment.” [1, 2, 3]
The UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, appointed Gro Harlem Brundtland as Chair, The Special Commission (Intergovernmental Inter-sessional Preparatory Committee), which had adopted the name the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1984 (commonly known as the Brundtland Commission), began its work in May 1984. Over the next three years it held public hearings and studied the issues. [4, 5] and in 1987 the commission published their report titled Our Common Future, where they cemented the term “sustainable development”. This document formed the basis for the 1992 first UN Earth Summit (UNCED).