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Part IV: Business and Society
The world, according to the Brundtland Commission, was
producing seven times more goods as compared to the 1950s. The
Brundtland Commission was established by the UN General
Assembly in 1983 and was formally known as the World Commission
on Environment and Development (WCED). The commission,
under the chairmanship of Harlem Brundtland, was convened to
address the growing global concern about the fast deterioration of
the human environment and quick depletion of natural resources,
both of which adversely impacted sustainable development. Today,
about 20 years after the Brundtland Report, we are producing
several times more goods, but more importantly, we are producing
several times more waste—solid, aqueous ...