Sustainable development in the EU?

Apparently sustainable development was first contemplated 1997 in the Treaty of Amsterdam which came into force 1999.

A review of what has been accomplished since then was published 2009. Two things stand out:

The availability of natural resources will be 30% above sustainable in 2050 when the population is calculated to become 9bn.

Furthermore, money invested in research and development have gone from 1.85% of GDP to 1.83% between 2000 and 2007 and thus deviates from the 2010 EU goal of 3%.

The EU goal is set because the current levels for the USA and Japan are 3% and over.