HC Deb 19 May 1992 vol 208 cc69-70W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to encourage the establishment of a worldwide organisation to monitor the implementation of sustainable living and to prevent serious breaches in securing this goal.

Mr. Maclean

I will be working at the Earth summit to promote international arrangements for the effective follow-up of the agreements reached in Rio, building as far as possible on existing institutional arrangements.

Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish his Department's definition of the concepts of(a) sustainable growth, (b) sustainable use and (c) sustainable development.

Mr. Maclean

Paragraphs 1.14 and 4.4 of the White Paper "This Common Inheritance", Cm 1200. contain definitions of sustainable development. Paragraph 1.5 of the same White Paper deals with the need to integrate economic growth within these principles. The definitions of sustainable development embody a definition of sustainable use.