The main aims of the Brundtland Commission are:
A. Providing quality education
B. Conservation of natural assets
C. Employment generation
D. Preservation of the regenerative capacity of the world's natural ecological system
E. Avoiding the imposition of added costs or risk on future generations
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → B, D & E Only
The Brundtland Commission stresses protecting the future generation. The present generation should hand over the earth in good order, with a stock of assets no less than what it inherited. Development can do this in three ways:
A. Providing quality education — Not included. Education is part of raising the living standard of the poor today. It is not one of the three ways of protecting the future generation.
B. Conservation of natural assets — Included. Natural assets that are conserved are left for those who come later.
C. Employment generation — Not included. Employment is part of meeting the basic needs of the poor in the present. It too is not one of the three ways.
D. Preservation of the regenerative capacity of the world’s natural ecological system — Included. Regenerative capacity is nature’s power to renew itself, as forests regrow and fish stocks recover.
E. Avoiding the imposition of added costs or risks on future generations — Included. The present generation should not pass on its costs, such as pollution, to the next one.
NCERT (2026-27): “…The Brundtland Commission emphasises on protecting the future generation. This is in line with the argument of the environmentalists who emphasise that we have a moral obligation to hand over the planet earth in good order to the future generation; that is, the present generation should bequeath a better environment to the future generation. At least we should leave to the next generation a stock of ‘quality of life’ assets no less than what we have inherited. The present generation can promote development that enhances the natural and built environment in ways that are compatible with |