Sustainable Development: Legal Status and Formulation
Abstract
Since 1990s almost every country in the world has acknowledged and adopted sustainable development as the objective of the country’s environmental policy and development agenda. According to the World Commission on Environment and Development, sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability offuture generations to meet their own needs. However, the concept of sustainable development lacks clarity, which leads to various and conflicting interpretations. In addition, the legal status of sustainable development is also debatable. This paper attempts to answer the question ofhow the concept of sustainable development has been developed, interpreted, implemented, and adopted in various international talks addressing global environmental problems and in Indonesian environmental law.
Keywords: sustainable development, principles of environmental law, global environmental problems
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