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The future of democracy in the face of climate change

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 might democracy and participatory…

All things sustainable..

Signs of springA 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 even leaving aside the…

UK government commitment to sustainable development: taking stock in the Potemkin Village

red tape on greenThe 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…

CERN: a failure of democracy and sustainability?

LHCOn 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, I’ve always favoured scientific…

The Futures of Sustainable Development and of Democracy

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 participatory…

Professor John Ruggie talks Business, Human Rights and Democracy

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 event, which…

Professor John Ruggie talks Business, Human Rights and Democracy

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 in February…

FDSD and WWF-UK call for stronger role for Parliament in sustainable development

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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

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.…

Vietnam’s PM on democracy as a factor of sustainable development

Vietnamese flagThe 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…

Thinking about future people

clockofthelongnowFDSD 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…

Give Your Vote: proxy voting, global fairness and climate change

vert-logo-orangeGive 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…

Democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development; Issues and approaches for civil society in the UK: an emerging agenda

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…

A revolutionary pathway to democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development

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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A possible pathway to revolutionary change for democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development

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…

Diaspora, democracy and sustainable development

[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…