Characteristics of the principles of sustainable development Scientific approach to the environment and the gradual clarification of the governing laws and mechanisms in the fact that the need to protect the environment is indisputable. Using metaphorically, it can be said that destroying the natural environment, undercut the branch on which sit a majority of anthropogenic changes, to facilitate the life of one man in the field, usually turns out to be harmful in others. Of course you can not inhibit the development of civilization, or totally abstain from the use of natural resources. There is, however, such a development in which the satisfaction of human needs will be done in harmony with the natural environment and respecting the right to life of other living organisms on Earth. This is called the principle of sustainable development (called sustainable development), which was adopted in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio DE Janeiro. It requires the national governments the obligation to create such legal and administrative protection of nature to the current economic and social development were not at the expense of depletion of natural resources, as they have the right to use them to future generations.