by kultur.work | Jan 26, 2016 | News and Comment
Our Winter Newsletter it out! With focus this time on democracy and climate politics. Interesting insights from David Kahane, Simon Burall, Andrea Westall, Halina Ward and János Zlinsky. Please get in touch at info@fdsd.org if you or your organisation would like to...
by Nick Aveling | Jan 26, 2016 | News and Comment
János Zlinksy, one of our longest serving Trustees and an advisor to the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, reflects on the relationship between the Paris COP and the Sustainable Development Goals Interview by Nick Aveling There’s been a lot of...
by Simon Burall | Jan 19, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
Simon Burall is the Director of Involve, a think tank and charity specialising in public participation. Their mission is to inspire, innovate and embed effective citizen engagement, to enable members of the public to take and influence the decisions that affect their...
by kultur.work | Jan 15, 2016 | News and Comment
Climate change is a notoriously ‘distant’ risk for most people. We hear about it in the news, but it rarely seems relevant to our everyday life – “it feels ‘not here’ and it feels ‘not now’”. This sense of non-urgency couldn’t be further away from the actual impact...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
This blog first appeared on the Involve website, January 8, 2016; and has just been published on the Democratic Audit UK website on January 14, 2016. COP21, the UN’s December 2015 Climate Change Conference, created a toughly negotiated agreement with space to improve...