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The Culture & Practice Convergence: Looking For Ways Towards Sustainability, Miguel Paolo Paredes
The Culture & Practice Convergence: Looking For Ways Towards Sustainability, Miguel Paolo Paredes
Center for Business Research and Development
Thirty years ago, the Earth Summit gathering in Rio de Janeiro held host to world leaders, setting a blueprint for a more secure future by balancing economic growth and ecological necessity. Created for member states to cooperate in response to worldwide development issues, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) sought to address these challenges and achieved a global consensus on the priorities for a new development agenda (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Earth Summit, n.d.) As sustainability issues encompassed the whole of the planet, the summit provided a platform for member states to collaborate …