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- Title
FROM "OUR COMMON FUTURE" TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW.
- Authors
ATAPATTU, SUMUDU
- Abstract
Sustainable development has become one of the most influential principles in international law. It has come a long way since the World Commission on Environment and Development first popularized the term in 1987. This article seeks to discuss the evolution of sustainable development from the Stockholm Conference in 1972 to the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the international community in 2015 and its implications for states. It argues that sustainable development has evolved as an umbrella concept and many of its components reflect customary international law. It concludes that sustainable development is neither vague nor indeterminate and imposes binding obligations on states.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABLE development; SUSTAINABLE development laws; WORLD Commission on Environment &; Development; SUSTAINABLE Development Goals (United Nations); UNITED Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972: Stockholm, Sweden)
- Publication
Wisconsin International Law Journal, 2019, Vol 36, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0743-7951
- Publication type
Article