Evolution And Relevance Of Sustainable Development In Global Governance

INTRODUCTION

Post the new Millennium, the era of sustainable development has redefined itself in an unprecedented way with equally unparalleled gains in global adherence to sustainable development. Sustainable development has gone further, now becoming a broader term, which besides the environment, is also has extended to social area. Such a type of evolution definitely covers wider and deeper territories characterizing the notion of sustainable development. By integrating both dimensions of it into balance paradigm of sustainable development the latter is actually transformed from two-dimensional balancing paradigm (between economic growth and environmental protection) into three-dimensional paradigm (between economic growth, environmental protection, and social development). This has now come to replace the old paradigm, which has been accepted as the most dominant concept of sustainable development. Leaders from across the world got together at the UN