GENERAȚIILE VIITOARE CA SUBIECT DE DREPT

Intimately linked to the concept of sustainable development, the theory that future generations are
the subject of law has aroused lively discussions at doctrinal level, at home and abroad. There are also
international conferences: e.g. the Stockholm Conference of 1972, which for the first time warned of the
future of humanity itself, as a result of environmental deterioration, following human activities; The
Brundtland report of the World Commission for Environment and Development appeared in 1987,
entitled „our common future”. The EU’s interest, in which Romania is a member state, in sustainable
development has grown in parallel with the United Nations initiative for this concept and has resulted in
a number of environmental action programs and strategies that have led to the development of
numerous acts to translate them into practice, because everything has become or must became
„sustainable” – economy, transport, industry, energy, consumption, agriculture.