UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
4427427
4 Avaust 1987
ENGLISH
ORIGINAL: ARABIC/CHINESE/ENGLISH/
FRENCH/RUSSIAN/SPANISH
Forty-second session
Ttem 83 (e1 of the provisional agendat
DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION: ENVIRONMENT
Report of the World Commission on Environment
‘and Development ~
Note_by the Secretarv-General
1. The General Assembly, in its resolution 38/161 of 19 December 1983,
inser alia, welcomed the establishment of a special commission that should make
avaitable a report on environment the alotal problématigue to the vear 2000 and
beyond, including oroposed strateaies for sustainable development. The conmission
later adopted the name World Commission un Environment and Development. In the
same resolution, the Assembly decided that, on matters within the mandate and
Durview of the United Nations Environment Proaramme, the report of the special
commission should in the first instance be considered by the Governing Council of
the Proaramme, tor transmission to the Assembly together with ats comments, and for
use as basic material in the preparation, tor adoption by the Assembly, of the
Environmental Fersvective to the Year 2000 and Beyond.
2. At its fourteenth session, held ac Nairobi trom 8 to 19 June 1987, the
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Proaramme adovted decision
14/14 of 16 June 1987, entitied "Report of the World Commission on Environment and
Development* ard, inter alia, decided to transmit the Commission's report to the
General Assembly together with a dratt resclution annexed to the decision tor
consideration and adoption by the Assembly,
3. The report of the World Commission on Environment and bevelopment, entitles
"Our Common Future", 15 hrieby transmitted to the General Assembly. pecision 14/14
‘of the Governing Council, the proposed draft resolution and the comments of the
Governing Council on the report of the Commission can be found in the report ot the
Governina Council on the work of its fourteenth session. 1/
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Notes
1/ Officias Records of the General Assembly, Forty-second Seasion, Supplenent
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ANNEX
Report of the World Commission on Environment
Seport of the world Commission on Environment
and Develonment
"Our Common Future*