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Our Common Future</div> <div class="floatRight_300" style="margin-bottom:10px;"> <div class="orangeBox" style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;"> <div class="boxTitle">Documents</div> <div class="boxSpace" > <ul class="highlightsSmall2"> <li> <a target='_blank' class='frontLink' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=E'>A/42/427 - Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development</a><br> <a class='smallGreyLink' target='_blank' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=A'>[Arabic]</a> <a class='smallGreyLink' target='_blank' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=C'>[Chinese]</a> <a class='smallGreyLink' target='_blank' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=E'>[English]</a> <a class='smallGreyLink' target='_blank' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=F'>[French]</a> <a class='smallGreyLink' target='_blank' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=R'>[Russian]</a> <a class='smallGreyLink' target='_blank' href='http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/42/427&Lang=S'>[Spanish]</a> <div style="font-size:11px;color:#666;"></div> </li> <li> <a target='_blank' class='frontLink' href='/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf'>Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (pdf)</a> <div style="font-size:11px;color:#666;"></div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> The General Assembly, in its resolution 38/161 of 19 December 1983, inter alia, welcomed the establishment of a special commission that should make available a report on environment and the global problematique to the year 2000 and beyond, including proposed strategies for sustainable development. The commission later adopted the name World Commission on Environment and Development. 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