![]() In 2009, former director of Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, Prof. Nine planetary boundaries – defining a safe operating space for humanity These goals however do not deliver a clear message about how we should implement Sustainable Development and build a future society within the safe limits of the Earth system. More comprehensive directions for the sustainable developments were set in 2000 as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with eight international development goals for the year 2015, succeeded in 2016 by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 interlinked goals to be achieved by 2030. Thus, the Convention on Biological Diversity, known informally as the Biodiversity Convention became another global-scale multilateral treaty in 1993. Not only climate change but also biodiversity was clearly another global issue that we as humans started fearing about. During the “Earth Summit’’ of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992 a large international and the cross-continental effort to address on of global issues was initiated, the Climate Change Convention which led to the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement to be signed in the same year. ![]() For that reason, sustainable development has emerged and become a long-term United Nations commitment since the proclamation of the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, known as the Brundtland Commission. ![]() We are already aware we cannot use everything on this planet limitless and the scale of our present activities threatens the well-being of future generations as well as our own. ![]()
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