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The sustainability wheels are coming off our democracy: shall we fix it?
on 11 September, 2012
The ethical tragedy of climate change without democracy
on 23 May, 2012
In his review of Stephen Gardiner’s A Perfect Moral Storm: the Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (LRB, 24 May), Malcolm Bull airs a much needed discussion as to how far democracy can respond at all adequately to the challenge …
Committing to the future we want
on 16 March, 2012
Paragraph 57 of the so-called ‘zero draft’ (the first, un-negotiated text) of the document to come out of this year’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development, The Future We Want, refers to the creation of an Ombudsperson or High Commissioner …
Committing to the future we want: full discussion paper on a High Commissioner for Future Generations at Rio+20
on 14 March, 2012
FDSD’s Halina Ward has been working to further develop earlier summary proposals for a High Commissioner for Future Generations at this year’s UN Conference on Sustiainable Development (‘Rio+20′).
In a new discussion paper, she makes the case for a High …
The future of democracy in the face of climate change
on 16 January, 2012
Halina Ward
This paper is the final report in FDSD’s major two-year research project on The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change.
The paper draws on Papers One to Four to find answers to the question: ‘how …
Intergenerational fairness, housing and planning policy
on 19 October, 2011
New think-tank the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) landed with a big splash today as they launched their new report Hoarding of Housing. The big headline is that there are now 25 million unoccupied bedrooms in British homes.
Meanwhile, the government …
UK government commitment to sustainable development: taking stock in the Potemkin Village
on 12 May, 2011
The UK Coalition government’s approach to sustainable development looks increasingly like a Potemkin village. Its smart websites and fine rhetoric hide the misery of the social fallout from cutbacks in our age of austerity, slow progress on environment, and …
A Different Sense of Time
on 18 February, 2011
As part of FDSD’s involvement in an emerging coalition to promote long-termism and future generations in the UK’s policy and democratic processes, we’ve been thinking about how our history and heritage can inspire long-term thinking about our future. This is …
FDSD and WWF-UK call for stronger role for Parliament in sustainable development
on 10 January, 2011
WWF-UK, FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Non-governmental organisations call for stronger role for Parliament in sustainable development
Today’s report from the Environmental Audit Committee (1): “Embedding Sustainable Development across Government” …
Taking the Longer View: UK Governance Options for a Finite Planet
on 16 December, 2010
Peter Roderick
“We take the long view in so many ways. We get educated. We have children. We build. We buy houses. We talk about “making a living”, a continuing, dynamic, creative process. We contribute to pension schemes. We imagine …
Clegg’s Horizon Shift: the new politics of the future
on 10 September, 2010
UK Deputy Prime Minister Clegg today delivered a key speech in which he called for a ‘horizon shift’. Our political culture, he said at the Institute of Government, “and in many ways our society more generally – has become …
Thinking about future people
on 15 July, 2010
FDSD Vice-Chair Ian Christie and I headed to the home of former trustee Sir Geoffrey Chandler and his wife Lucy for lunch yesterday. And our conversation turned to intergenerational thinking, and to the challenges of integrating long-termism and regard for …
UK Civil society call for a ‘new politics of the future’
on 1 June, 2010
FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Civil society call for a ‘new politics of the future’
In an open letter dated 1st June 2010 to Prime Minister Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Clegg, a group including chief …
Hungary’s Green Ombudsman puts environmental futures at the heart of decision-making
on 25 February, 2010
OFFICE OF THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY IN LONDON
FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Hungary’s Green Ombudsman puts environmental futures at the heart of decision-making…
Learning from the Hungarian Green Ombudsman
on 15 November, 2009
Halina Ward
Halina Ward reflects on the potential relevance for the UK of Hungary’s unique ‘Green Ombudsman’ role: the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Generations. This piece was originally published in the November issue of the electronic journal of …
Examples of parliamentary innovation for sustainable development: Hungary, Finland, Israel.. and the UK?
on 10 September, 2009
One common question in our work is ‘what sorts of changes could help to get democracy working for sustainable development? Give me some examples’.
One answer is to point to existing examples of innovations designed to help parliaments to integrate …
Learning from Hungary’s Green Ombudsman
on 3 September, 2009
Sustainable development calls for efforts to promote long-term thinking in democratic decision-making. Both the interests of future generations and of the environment need to be properly considered.
Hungary’s Parliament has taken an innovative step in this direction. In 2007, Parliament …
Scottish Children’s Parliament
on 20 August, 2009
The Scottish Children’s Parliament provides opportunities for children aged from 9 to 14 years old to engage in local, national and international democratic processes.
The Parliament has been working with WWF Scotland in a Climate Change Project which gave children …
Democracy and sustainability
on 3 March, 2008
Tim O’Riordan
In this paper, Professor Tim O’Riordan responds to papers by Ian Christie and Sara Parkin. He considers the relevance of a variety of ‘tipping points’ to sustainability politics, suggesting that we could witness the emergence of a …