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Increase of the global population to 9 billion by 2050, as well as the number of middle-class people exceeding 3 billion by 2030, will not only lead to an increase in demand for different types of products, but also can cause enormous environmental degradation. The conferences, which took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and 2012, surely played a huge role in shaping the concept of sustainable development...