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 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 25 October, 2012
The UK Autumn conference season’s Labour Party gathering at the beginning of October featured an unusual guest speaker: contemporary philosopher Michael Sandel. The Harvard professor and rock-star moralist dazzled the Party crowd with a lecture on the moral limits of …
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 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 …
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 7 June, 2011
A new Natural Environment White Paper was launched today.
I still can’t quite believe that the government thinks it can ‘mainstream’ sustainable development across government, as it has said it will do, without a sustainable development strategy. And that’s …
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 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 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 15 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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 18 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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 18 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 18 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 …
Posted By Halina Ward
on 2 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 …