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Sustainable Development Timeline
Compiled by Library and Information Centre Sustainable Development Timeline " Sustainable Development is Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." from the World Commission on Environment and Development s (Brundtland Commission) report Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist, was the first person to claim in 1896 that fossil fuel combustion may eventually result in enhanced global warming. In 1992, the Earth Summit marked a milestone with agreement by more than 178 countries on Agenda 21, the visionary blueprint for Sustainable Development . Several such significant developments and events have marked the journey toward Sustainable Development . This chronology covers some of the milestones that have considerable bearing on the interlinked components of Sustainable Development .
1986 Chernobyl nuclear station accident generates a massive toxic radioactive explosion. It is considered as the world’s worst nuclear disaster. 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer ado pted . The Protocol is designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order
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