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 the…
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UK government commitment to sustainable development: taking stock in the Potemkin Village
on 12th May, 2011
FDSD and WWF-UK call for stronger role for Parliament in sustainable development
on 10th 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” confirms that sustainable development has…
Taking the Longer View: UK Governance Options for a Finite Planet
on 16th 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 retirement.…
Democracy and Sustainable Development – Following Hungary’s Lead?
on 23rd November, 2010
A conversation between Ian Christie, Vice-Chair of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development (FDSD), and János Zlinsky, new FDSD trustee, and Head of Strategy and Research with the Office of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations.
Amid UK worries…
Democracy and Sustainable Development – Following Hungary’s Lead?
on 23rd November, 2010
A conversation between Ian Christie, Vice-Chair of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development (FDSD), and János Zlinsky, new FDSD trustee, and Head of Strategy and Research with the Office of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations.
Amid UK worries…
Economy ‘fit for purpose’ needs democracy ‘fit for purpose’
on 3rd November, 2009
I went to an excellent Sustainable Development Commission/Earthscan panel discussion yesterday afternoon for the launch of Professor Tim Jackson’s new book, “Prosperity without Growth”. Other panelists were Professor Lord Tony Giddens, Jo Swinson MP and Ed Crooks.
The discussion was based on…
Examples of parliamentary innovation for sustainable development: Hungary, Finland, Israel.. and the UK?
on 10th 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 long-term thinking…
