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Development that provides economic, social and environmental benefits in the long term having regard to the needs of living and future generations. Defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 as: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Source: GEMET/GILP96)
Our Common Future, the Brundtland Report: \"sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: - the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given, and - the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organisation on the environment's ability to meet the present and future needs.\" (Source: InforMEA)
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Multilateral environment agreements tagged with développement durable
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Convention sur la diversité biologique | 4 articles and paragraphs19 decisions |
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Convention de Bâle | 8 decisions |
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Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction | 4 decisions |
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Convention sur la conservation des espèces migratrices | 3 decisions |
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Convention de Stockholm | 2 articles and paragraphs4 decisions2 documents |
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Protocole de Montréal | 5 decisions |
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Protocole de Nagoya | 1 article or paragraph |
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Accord sur la conservation des oiseaux d'eau migrateurs d'Afrique-Eurasie | 3 decisions |
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Traité international sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture | 1 decision |
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Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques | 3 articles and paragraphs |
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La Convention du patrimoine mondial | 33 decisions |
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Protocole de Kyoto | 2 articles and paragraphs |
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Convention sur les zones humides | 3 decisions |
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Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification | 4 articles and paragraphs20 decisions |
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Convention de Rotterdam | 4 decisions |
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Convention de Barcelone | 36 decisions |
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Governing Council | 20 decisions |
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Convention sur la pollution atmosphérique transfrontière à longue distance | 1 document |
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Convention d'Espoo | 1 article or paragraph |
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Convention de Cartagena | 2 decisions |
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Convention de Bamako | 1 decision |
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Convention sur les effets transfrontières des accidents industriels | 1 article or paragraph |
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Convention de Minamata sur le mercure | 1 decision |
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Convention des Carpates | 1 article or paragraph41 decisions |
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Assemblée des Nations Unies pour l’environnement | 38 decisions |