Abstract
This chapter reviews the global discourse and policy of sustainable development since the report of the North–South Commission “Our Common Future” (Brundtland Report) from 1987. Sustainability and sustainable development were controversially discussed in science and politics, but the idea was successfully anchored in national and global policies; public support was at first high, later weakening, and the success was limited, as global assessments showed. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the main deficits that currently impede the sustainability process: the lack of a transition strategy, the unequal development and the asymmetric power relations between countries in the Global North and Global South, and the dilemmas and conflicts in the process.
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