Sustainable development and The United Arab Eremites Sustainable development is a subject of increasing importance, knowledge and science is progressing and the media is paying more attention to issues concerning the environment and sustainable development, with documentary's such as 'An Inconvenient Truth' with Al Gore, directed by Davis Guggenheim have also raised public awareness. There is no doubt that sustainable development is an important issue and one that needs to be tackled on a global as well as a local basis. This means all countries need to deal with the issue, limited negative impacts and creating policies and encouragement for sustainable development to take place from the United States to the United Arab Eremites, all countries and citizens within those countries need to take action in order for sustainable development to become a reality. In this paper the concept and approaches to sustainable development will be examined and then the approach that a single region has towards sustainable development can be considered. There is no single definition to apply to the term sustainable development. It can be interpreted as meaning that as any consumption will mean the use of some resources, many of which may not be replaceable, so the use of non replaceable resources or resources that damage the environment will not be defined as sustainable development with ecocentric this approach (Eckersley, 1992). If we apply this then it is almost impossible for any business so satisfy the criteria of sustainable development (Eckersley, 1992). Alternatively, the definition given by the Bruntdland report that it is the ability to ‘Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future’ (WCED, 1987)