In 1983 the UN General Assembly called for ‘A global agenda for change’ (World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), 1987). For this undertaking, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was assigned to establish a ‘special, independent commission to address this major challenge to the world community’. 900 days later, the Brundtland Commission published ‘Our common future’ (WCED, 1987). Today, this report is often considered to be the origin of the modern understanding of sustainability and sustainable development, as well as the start of the institutionalisation of sustainability.
