Posted By John Lotherington
on 9 May, 2013
Early in March, Labour published an independent review called ‘Overcoming Short-termism within British Business’. The picture was not pretty: “Short-termism has become an entrenched feature of the UK business environment” that “militates against… the UK’s future economic prosperity”, it warned.…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 20 March, 2013
As a new Democracy and Sustainability Platform launches, rooted in a short Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, Halina Ward argues that democracy and sustainability are inextricably linked and that the time for action is now.
The case for action
Climate …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 20 March, 2013
The Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability launches today. It’s at the heart of a new Democracy and Sustainability Platform which we unveil with the help of a fabulous group of founder signatories and partners from around the world.
If you …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 20 March, 2013
We cherish sustainability: meeting the needs of people now without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. But today, human activities have exceeded the earth’s natural limits. As a species we have created great inequalities and …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 20 March, 2013
PRESS RELEASE, 20 March 2013
www.democracyandsustainability.org
Sustainability agenda ignores democracy at its peril. World’s first people’s manifesto for democracy and sustainability sets out a global agenda for action.
World leaders have failed to make democracy fit for purpose to tackle …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 20 March, 2013
The Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability was created through an international consultation process. Over a seven-month period from June 2012-January 2013 around 330 people from around the world provided their ideas on the vision, principles and actions that should inform …
Posted By Jyoti Panday
on 6 March, 2013
The UK government’s plans for management of nuclear waste have come to a standstill with Cumbria Council’s decision earlier this year to vote against Government plans to undertake preliminary work on an underground storage dump close to the Lake District.…
Posted By Jyoti Panday
on 4 February, 2013
It is good to see the idea of democracy’s inextricable link to sustainability taking roots in international development.
Music to our ears, a recent news release from the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), headed ‘Putting Democracy at the Heart of Sustainable …
Posted By Jyoti Panday
on 8 January, 2013
There is a magic that is created when ideas, imagination and vision come together. There is definitely something magical about the historic Schloss Leopoldskron-an estate by a calm lake with majestic view of the mountains. Man and nature coexisting in …
Posted By Nicolò
on 4 December, 2012
Manifestos are aplenty, nowadays. From Occupy, through business brands, to small and large online and offline communities alike, what was once exclusively the purview of political parties and intellectuals, has been adopted as a popular form of communication …
Posted By Nicolò
on 23 November, 2012
A year after Monti’s appointment as Prime Minister, we draw some lessons from Italy on the strengths and limits of unelected government. What does it mean for the status of Italian democracy? And what will its contribution be, if any, …
Posted in Blog, Democracies worldwide, democratisation
Also tagged economy, Italy, legitimacy, long-term, manifesto, Monti, political parties, reforms, short-term, technocracy
Posted By Nicolò
on 11 September, 2012
Nicolò Wojewoda is Consultation and Research Officer at FDSD. This post was originally published on the blog of Otesha UK.
Imagine this. You’re merrily queueing at the local coffee shop for a shot of espresso, while grinning from ear …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 10 July, 2012
FDSD is looking for an intern to work with us for a fixed term three month period, starting as soon as practicable.
The major focus for the internship will be activities associated with the consultation process for the manifesto for …
Posted By John Lotherington
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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 30 December, 2011
Tim O’Riordan
Professor Tim O’Riordan’s commentary on democracy, climate change and and sustainability is a contribution to discussions under FDSD’s project on the future of democracy in the face of climate change.
In the wake of UK Chancellor George Osborne’s …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 13 July, 2011
Dr Bronwyn Hayward, FDSD trustee and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, talks about the impact of New Zealand’s devastating Christchurch earthquake on democracy, and its implications for ‘resilient citizenship’.
Bronwyn explores what makes …
Posted By Halina Ward
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 …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 14 February, 2011
On the back of my previous post (Atmosphere: exploring climate science…), which raised questions about the value of science in a social vacuum, I’ve been thinking more about the space occupied by science in society.
As a science graduate myself, …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 9 February, 2011
Halina Ward with additional inputs from Emma Woods & Anandini Yoganathan
This paper forms Paper Four in FDSD’s project on The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change, which aims to develop scenarios that can help to answer …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 9 February, 2011
Halina Ward with Emma Woods
This paper forms Paper Three in FDSD’s project on The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change, which aims to develop scenarios that can help to answer the question: ‘how might democracy and …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 7 February, 2011
With Paper Four (Climate Change: an overview of science, scenarios, projected impacts and links to democracy) in our project on The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change posted to the FDSD website, Halina (FDSD’s Director) and I …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 20 January, 2011
I came across this audio clip among the online media for the 2009 International Climate Conference ‘4 Degrees and Beyond’. Professor Bertrand Guillaume of Troyes University of Technology presents ‘Avoiding a 4+°C world: a challenge for democracy’.
Drawing on the …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 11 January, 2011
Video courtesy of Ian Brown
An interview with Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights, during a three-day event entitled ‘Democracy and Sustainability in Emerging Economies: India as a Case Study’. The …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 10 January, 2011
Video courtesy of Ian Brown
With the so-called ‘Ruggie process’ drawing to a conclusion, we are pleased to post an interview with Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights. The interview was filmed …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 10 January, 2011
WWF-UK, FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PRESS RELEASE
EMBARGOED TO 00:01 GMT, 10th January 2011
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” …
Posted By Halina Ward
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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 16 July, 2010
The Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, has just made a strong statement on the link between democracy and sustainable development in an article titled “Rapid and sustainable development – The kernel in Vi…
Posted By Halina Ward
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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 1 June, 2010
FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PRESS RELEASE
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 …
