by kultur.work | Oct 19, 2015
Image (modifed): courtesy of Barn Images / flickr.com (CC0) Legislation Lab is an online platform for enabling public discussion of upcoming legislation. International in reach, it offers citizens easy access to legislation – as well as examples of related experiences...
by kultur.work | Sep 23, 2015 | News and Comment
In his latest essay Climate Policy: Democracy is not an inconvenience, Professor Nico Stehr—founding director of the European Center for Sustainability Research—reflects on the growing number of climate scientists who are not only expressing their impatience with...
by kultur.work | Sep 16, 2015 | News and Comment
Ecological crises can make politics horrible: panic-inducing scarcity, ethnic and religious conflict, hunger driven imperialism. In his latest essay “Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy”, Professor Jedediah Purdy is shedding light on the fact that an...
by kultur.work | Aug 9, 2015
FDSD’s first programme of work, 2009 to 2013, culminated in a Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, the guiding principles being: We cherish sustainability: meeting the needs of people now without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own...
by Andrea Westall | May 29, 2015
Peter Davies, Welsh Commissioner for Sustainable Futures, spoke at the re-launch of FDSD about the innovative 2015 Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act and how it can inspire action and change not only in Wales but across the rest of the UK and beyond. The...
by Ann Thorpe | May 16, 2015
A right to know, a right to be heard, a right to access justice The Access Initiative and the World Resources Institute will launch the first ever Environmental Democracy Index (EDI) on May 20th at the National Press Club. Speakers Avi Garbow (Keynote...
by Ann Thorpe | May 16, 2015 | News and Comment
The Access Initiative and the World Resources Institute are launching the first ever Environmental Democracy Index (EDI) on May 20th. EDI is the first index to measure how well countries’ national laws protect environmental democracy rights, namely, the right of the...
by Ann Thorpe | Apr 27, 2015 | News and Comment
In March the European Environment Agency published its State and Outlook Environment Report (SOER) 2015 (available here). The report highlights innovations in governance needed for long term sustainability. In addition, a section of the SOER website highlights global...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 2, 2015
Common Cause believes it is important to tackle complex sustainability problems and democracy in a mutually supportive way by fostering “intrinsic” values that support self-acceptance, care for others and concerns for the natural world, rather than ones...
by kultur.work | Oct 20, 2014
The Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, was launched on 20th March 2013, with 81 individual founder signatories and initially 16 organisations. It includes six Principles and associated commitments whose purpose it to transform democracy to become a powerful...
by Ann Thorpe | Oct 13, 2014
2015 October Policy Dialogue: “Democracy In a Sustainable Future” (Minnesota, October 13-15, 2015), co-organized by Club de Madrid and Partnership for Change. An international conference in Minneapolis, co-hosted by the University of Minnesota.This Policy Dialogue...
by Ann Thorpe | May 7, 2014
7 May 2015 Policy Dialogue: “Reconciling Democratic Governance and Sustainability: Trends and Remedies”, Oslo, May 2015; organized by Partnership for Change (PfC). This Policy Dialogue will be focused on Next Generation Democracy (NGD) track III (‘Resources and...
by Andrea Westall | Dec 12, 2012
A group of selected invitees gathered in Salzburg, Austria for a synthesis workshop on the Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, co-organized by Salzburg Global Seminar. Participants analysed the responses to the consultation, and produced recommendations to...
by Andrea Westall | Nov 26, 2012
From 26th-30th November, FDSD worked alongside Madrid-based IIDMA (the Instituto Internactional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente) to run a consultation for the Manifesto in Spain, using the tenth national environmental congress, CONAMA, as a platform for a workshop and...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 10, 2012
FDSD’s Nicolò Wojewoda facilitated a consultation workshop for alumni of The Otesha Project’s bicycle friendly and youth-led sustainability education programme.
by Andrea Westall | Jun 15, 2012
FDSD ran two sessions to develop the people’s Manifesto on Democracy and Sustainability at Cupula dos Povos, part of the People’s Summit at Rio+20.
by Andrea Westall | Jun 15, 2012
FDSD co-organised a workshop session in Rio de Janeiro as part of a two-day event Fair ideas: sharing solutions for a sustainable planet hosted by IIED and the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC) The event was held at the (PUC) together with The...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 21, 2012
The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change was a piece of research which ran from late 2009 to early 2012. It resulted in five reports which explore the question of: How might democracy and participatory decision-making have evolved to cope with the...
by Andrea Westall | Dec 21, 2011
Tim O’Riordan notes our reluctance to forego the benefits of a carbon-dependent world. We want sustainability but are not prepared to vote for it. The main problem is short-termism, exacerbated when things are financially tight. Tim notes that the one piece of...
by Andrea Westall | Nov 17, 2010
FDSD and Chatham House held a half-day seminar at Chatham House to consider how various climate change scenarios could affect democracy in the UK and US, and to ask whether international policy-makers should share some of the blame for why liberal democracies are...
