The Brundtland Commission (1987) described Sustainable Development (SD) as development that meets the needs of the present generation without sacrificing the need for future generations to meet their own needs. 

The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change – adopted by 196 parties at COP 21 in Paris, December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016. The Paris Agreement is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

 On the 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at a historic UN Summit — officially came into force (soft law). SDGs are internationally agreed on goals that allow us to determine what humanity as represented by 193 member states, finds acceptable and desirable (Keitsch 2018).


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