Education For Sustainable Development Society – The Future Requirements Todericiu Ramona, Muscalu Emanoil, Liviu Mihăescu “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu Bd-ul. Victoriei, Nr.10, Sibiu, 550024 ROMANIA ramona.todericiu@ulbsibiu.ro, emanoil.muscalu@ulbsibiu.ro, liviu.mihaescu@ulbsibiu.ro Abstract: -Each generation has to carry out tasks and must not leave the account generations to come - this is the basic concept of sustainable development. And this includes explicitly the global perspective.[1] Key-Words: - sustainable development, education, environmental education, education for sustainable development 1. Sustainable development - one of the challenges of. XXI-st Century? Last years of the twentieth century were marked by a sustained concern of governments, specialists but also of a number of increasingly large world population to protect the environment, natural resources. This interest has been generated by the realization that striking the Earth in terms of beauty, unfortunately, offering a limited space in which people must live. These two aspects - the limited nature of the Earth and its resources, and that of membership in a global system, the interdependence of all parties to the system - are crucial, say experts on the theme "Sustainability". The concept of sustainable development came 30 years ago, in response to worsening environmental problems and natural resource crisis, in particular those related to energy - today experts have identified a total of approximately 300 definitions of the concept. The term sustainable development has become, however, well known only after the Conference on Environment and Development, organized by the United Nations in Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1992, known as the "Earth Summit". On this occasion, were developed several conventions on climate change (emissions of methane and carbon dioxide), biological diversity (species conservation) and stop the massive deforestation. All then was developed and Agenda 21 - considered plan to support sustainable development. Regarding the European Union - Sustainable development has become a major goal, since 1997, when it was included in the Maastricht Treaty, and in 2001, the Summit at Goteborg was adopted EU Strategy for Sustainable Development, which was added an external dimension in Barcelona in 2002. 2. The Sustainable Development Sustainable development is a complex concept, in a continuous evolution, which is always added new valences making it much harder to define. Most experts believe that when we talk about sustainable development in the three components: environment, society and economy- considering that the three areas are interdependent, which means that we can not reach a state of good in one of the three areas without regard for others. In 1987, in the report WCED-World Commission on Environment and Development- known as the Brundtland Report, a year after the catastrophe of Chernobyl, was formulated most quoted definition of sustainable development: "Sustainable development is one that follows the requirements of this without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs.[2] Lester Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute has but the most commonly used definition of 'sustainable development' definition which was taken in the report entitled "Our Common Future - Our Common Future" Brundtland Commission: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." [3] It should be noted that "the meaning of the concept of sustainability has seen a strong RECENT ADVANCES in ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT ISSN: 1790-5095 368 ISBN: 978-960-474-159-5