Strategies for Sustainability

"Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." (International Commission for Environment and Development, Brundtland Report, 1987)

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  Germany: Research for Sustainability

  The environmental research supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) initially developed methods and techniques for recording and reducing pollution. The objective of the technologically oriented strategy was to provide for constant further development of the state of the art of environmental protection technology. The focus of research funding shifted from end-of-pipe technology to preventive and avoidance solutions and increasingly to causal research and environmental system research.
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  Germany: National Sustainability Strategy

  This is the aim of the Federal Government's current "High-Tech Strategy": By the year 2020, Germany is to become a country with the most renowned institutions of higher education and with the best trained young people; a country where the technologies of the future are developed and the spirit of invention guarantees health and safety. Progress in the field of know-how, the early evaluation of acquired knowledge and economic success are closely linked with the ethical aspects of protecting human life and with questions of consumer safety or the preservation of our natural environment.
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  Multilateral Sustainability Strategies

  Ever since the UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972) marked a turning point in the development of international environmental politics, the international community has come up with multilateral strategies for addressing pressing global issues. A series of UN conferences resulted in international agreements and programmes addressing sustainability (e.g. Agenda 21, Rio, 1992).
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