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.
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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 …
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 …
PRESS RELEASE, 20 March 2013
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
WWF-UK, FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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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” …
“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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
In this paper written following an NGO Leaders meeting on democracy, environmental justice and sustainable development held in …
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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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 …
[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 …
