Q 01/05

The 1987 Brundtland Report defined sustainable development as not compromising the needs of whom?

A) Developing nations

B) Future generations

C) Other species

D) The global poor

Answer · why

B) Future generations

Future generations are named in the report's one-line definition, which became the standard one; its findings also laid the ground for the 1992 Earth ...

Q 02/05

Sustainability is usually described as resting on which three pillars?

A) Energy, water and food

B) Environmental, economic and social

C) Local, national and global

D) Reduce, reuse and recycle

Answer · why

B) Environmental, economic and social

Environmental, economic and social: the trio is everywhere, yet researchers who traced it found no single point of origin. It emerged gradually from e...

Q 03/05

Sustainability is traced to Hans Carl von Carlowitz's 1713 book about which resource?

A) Coal

B) Timber

C) Fish

D) Fresh water

Answer · why

B) Timber

Timber was running short for Saxony's silver mines, which devoured wood; Carlowitz, the official in charge of the mines, answered with a forestry trea...

Q 04/05

In which city was the first UN Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972?

A) Geneva

B) Nairobi

C) Stockholm

D) Rio de Janeiro

Answer · why

C) Stockholm

Stockholm's conference led the UN to create its Environment Programme, which it then based in Nairobi.

Q 05/05

How many Sustainable Development Goals did the UN adopt in 2015?

A) 8

B) 12

C) 15

D) 17

Answer · why

D) 17

They replaced the eight Millennium Development Goals and come with 169 targets due by 2030.