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The Brundtland report of 1987, entitled Our Common Future, defined the concept of sustainable development, which is grounded in equity and shared well-being both within and across generations. Sustainable development was subsequently adopted as an overarching objective by Governments at the Earth Summit of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, together with a set of Rio Principles and a global action plan, Agenda 21, which included many goals and targets, some of which informed the Millennium Development Goals a decade later. The time has come to reconnect science and policy. The policy framework itself emerged with limited direct scientific input. The World Commission on Environment andDevelopment was dominated by politicians and little science was present at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Ten years later at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, there was some scientific presence. In 2012 at “Rio+20”, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, science was very prominent. One reason is the emergence of sustainability science as a new interdisciplinary, unified scientific endeavour in the 2000s. It commanded an estimated 37,000 authors based in 174 countries in 2010.