Environmental Quality Objectives and Action Targets for Water Protection | Umweltbundesamt

Since the presentation of the Report of the ⁠UN⁠ Commission for Environment and Development (Brundtland Report) in 1987 and the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 the concept of "sustainable development" has dominated the environmental debate world-wide. The 1994 Commission of Inquiry of the German Federal Parliament "Protection of Man and Environment" took up and further developed the concept with regard to basic principles for a policy on  chemical substances.