Posted By Halina Ward
on 16th 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 Việt Nam’s…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 15th 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 future…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 1st 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 executives of ten civil…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 22nd May, 2010
I’ve just returned from the final session of the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) International Working Group on Social Responsibility. The ‘SR’ Working Group has been driving efforts to develop a consensus-based, globally applicable, voluntary international guidance standard on social…
Posted By fdsd
on 8th April, 2010
The Copenhagen Climate Summit, held from 7th to 18th December 2009, was a milestone in the relationship between democracy and climate change. As government negotiators at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change tried to hammer out…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 15th March, 2010
Give Your Vote, a campaign to get the UK’s voters to donate their votes in the forthcoming General Election to citizens of Bangladesh, Ghana and Afghanistan, is launched today, and seems to be attracting quite some interest in the mainstream…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 10th March, 2010
Halina Ward
In this first paper from FDSD’s project on ‘The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change’, Halina Ward outlines the range of links between democracy and climate change. The paper explores the range of reasons why it is…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 10th March, 2010
FDSD is pleased to announce a collaboration with Schumacher College- the International Centre for Sustainability, Dartington Hall Trust, Salzburg Global Seminar and Goodenough College in London to present an international leadership seminar on ‘Mobilising Democracy to Tackle Climate Change’ in the centre of…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 22nd December, 2009
I’m back in London after a week in Copenhagen at various climate events. Almost everything climate-related that happened in and around Copenhagen over the past two weeks offers rich pickings for reflection on the changing relationship between democracy and climate…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 18th December, 2009
Maria Adebowale, Simon Burall, Caroline Digby, Erin van der Maas, Paul Manners, Charles Secrett, Matthew Scott, Mark Walton, Halina Ward, Stuart Wilks-Heeg
In this paper written following an NGO Leaders meeting on democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development held in October…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 18th December, 2009
Charles Secrett
Leading sustainability campaigner Charles Secrett sets out a possible pathway for achieving revolutionary change towards democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development.
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Posted By Halina Ward
on 18th December, 2009
In a new paper published on this website, sustainability campaigner Charles Secrett sets out a possible pathway for achieving revolutionary change towards democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development.
As Charles explains: “Currently, we have no visionary text explaining the intersect between…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 4th December, 2009
FDSD has been awarded a ‘Future of Humanity’ grant by US-based Foundation for the Future for a research project on ‘the future of democracy in the face of climate change’.
Future of Humanity grants are awarded following an annual competition for proposals…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 2nd December, 2009
[Cross-posted from www.thesamosa.co.uk]
This is a post about terrorism, sustainable development, and the power of diaspora. And it’s a post that asks whether we might find ourselves in a different place now had Osama Bin Laden been poor.
There was a…
Posted By Halina Ward
on 2nd September, 2009
Background
It is clear that established systems of citizen participation and democracy will struggle to cope with the multiple challenges and trade-offs of climate change management; but how they might evolve or what might emerge to replace them is unclear.
Less democracy, more…
