Climate change
It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change will challenge established systems of citizen participation and democracy.
The worst case is that our freedoms could be curtailed as we allow more autocratic measures to ration and control behaviour. But it is also possible that the challenges of climate change could encourage experimentation at the grassroots with a variety of decision-making processes.
We believe, both from sustainable development and human rights perspectives, that democracy (i.e. governance by the people for the people) is the only political system capable of respecting human rights on the scale ethically necessary to preserve the dignity of humankind. But we also believe democracy must be reformed, as a matter of urgency, in order to meet the challenges to come.
16 January, 2012
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. It draws on Papers One to Four to find answers to the question: ‘how might democracy and …
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12 November, 2010
The Conference of European Churches (CEC) has organised a series of seminars to address the issue of environmental degradation and how it affects poverty and democratic institutions.
Given FDSD’s work on climate change and its possible impacts on democracy, the …
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5 November, 2010
FDSD and Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) organised a half-day seminar to debate democracy and climate change. The meeting was chaired by FDSD Director Halina Ward and included presentations from Michael Jacobs, a former Special Advisor to …
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15 April, 2010
The Foundation for Sustainable Development 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 at Goodenough …
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1 March, 2010
Over the course of 2010, with the support of a Future of Humanity Grant from US-based Foundation for the Future, we will be working to develop scenarios on “The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change”.
By …
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