Submissions & letters

FDSD produces submissions and letters in response to national and international consultations, and raises issues directly, either by ourselves or with partners.

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Submissions & Letters

Proposed Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill | FDSD submission

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FDSD submitted a response to Sarah Boyack MSP on the proposed Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill. We highlighted the importance of adopting a long-term perspective in policymaking to ensure the wellbeing of current and future generations.
Submissions & Letters

Renewing our democracy by placing people from all walks of life at the heart of decisions | Recommendations to Labour Policy Forum Inquiry

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FDSD made a collective submission to the Labour Policy Forum on 17 March 2023 together with Involve, Demos, the Sortition Foundation, IsWe and Shared Future. In it we argued that since our current democracy is failing to tackle the big challenges of our time, we need to engage many more people from different backgrounds in all aspects of our political and policy decision-making
Submissions & Letters

Proposal: Committee for Future Generations in the House of Lords

FDSD sees the ongoing review of House of Lords committees as an opportunity to try to strengthen long-term thinking in the UK Parliament. Backed by more than 30 peers, we are proposing a new Committee for Future Generations in the second chamber.
Submissions & Letters

Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee’s Consultation on the Government’s Approach to Sustainable Development

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FDSD submitted a response on 1st September 2015 to the Environmental Audit Committee’s consultation on The Government’s Approach to Sustainable Development. The EAC’s consultation aims to stocktake the current UK Government approach to sustainable development, as well as the kind of themes and inquiries which the EAC could pursue over this parliamentary term. Our response included recommendations […]
Submissions & Letters

Civil society groups urge UN Secretary General to take future generations seriously

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FDSD, as part of the Alliance for Future Generations, joined international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), in urging UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to give priority, and proper resources, to a report on intergenerational solidarity and future generations, as required by the Rio+20 outcome document The Future We Want.
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FDSD calls for definition of sustainable development in the Localism Bill

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FDSD joined 28 other organisations, including the National Trust and the Town and Country Planning Association, to call for the then Localism Bill (now Localism Act) to be amended to include a definition of sustainable development.
Submissions & Letters

Save the world’s only Commissioner for Future Generations

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When FDSD learned that new administrative arrangements for Hungary’s Commissioner for Future Generations could water down the role of this unique institution, despite strengthened protection for the environment and future generations in Hungary’s new constitution, we drafted an urgent sign-on letter to MEP József Szájer.
Submissions & Letters

Submission to the PASC Inquiry into Government policy and the capacity for strategic thinking in Whitehall

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FDSD submitted evidence to the PASC (Public Administration Select Committee) Inquiry into Government policy and the capacity for strategic thinking in Whitehall arguing that the UK needs to create new institutions to overcome short-term electoral cycles, and to have regard for the needs of future generations.
Submissions & Letters

FDSD submits written evidence on Rio+20 to the Environmental Audit Committee

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FDSD warned about ‘signs of erosion in the overall global political commitment to sustainable development’ and recommended urgent action to accept the reality of planetary boundaries, address political short-termism and create institutions to ensure that the needs of future generations are built into decision-making.

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Wales—A Well-Being Nation 

Wales—A Well-Being Nation 

In this article, Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner of Wales, sets out his Office’s new seven year strategy, arguing that the WfG Act has to now “work harder and faster”, even though, at the same time as public finances, including his own office, are under severe pressure.

FDSD Newsletter, Autumn 2023

FDSD Newsletter, Autumn 2023

From national to local level, Scotland is rethinking how its policy, and participation practices, can better reflect sustainable development, wellbeing, and the needs of future generations. This FDSD newsletter showcases some of the activities that are happening, or are being considered.

Deepening Democracy for the Long Term | By Graham Smith

Deepening Democracy for the Long Term | By Graham Smith

The public’s perspectives on future generations are highly structured by the context in which they are articulated. A long-term perspective is rarely taken by people when they make immediate and everyday decisions – with the exception of those motivated by ‘lifetime-transcending interests’.

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