ABSTRACT
Operating during the 1980s, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) had the United Nations General Assembly mandate to propose an alternative environmental agenda, fostering concrete change towards global sustainability policies. WCED gave global environmental governance a blueprint to define sustainable development and to advance global policymaking on a thorny set of issues: how to mainstream environmental concerns, reconciling environment and development (in its economic and social acceptations). It met with huge contrasts among diverging interests of Global North and Global South countries, opposing interests of United Nations Environmental Programme and its own members’ worldviews. In the end, it produced the landmark report, Our Common Future, and showed an example of innovative global deliberation on world common issues.
