Future generations
A new alliance to build long-termism into UK democracy
FDSD is proud to be a key founding organisation behind the new Alliance for Future Generations (AFG). The Alliance’s members are organisations and individuals working to ensure that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice. Supporting the Alliance and contributing to its projects currently forms a significant portion of FDSD’s work on future generations.
“There is a great deal of work that needs to be done to achieve wider cultural transformation – so that as citizens, we place higher value on future generations and collective well-being.”
From the founding document of the Alliance
The Alliance was launched in March 2011 and will, we hope, become a leading voice for those calling for reforms to our democratic system and policies that will ensure we hand on a better future to our descendants and to young people living now.
Keep an eye out for updates — we’ll post them here as the Alliance takes shape…
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 …
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17 February, 2012
A new paper published today outlines what mandate a UN High Commissioner for Future Generations (UNHCFG) could have, if such a position was created.
The paper, published by FDSD and the World Future Council, has been released to help UN …
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31 January, 2012
A report published today by the UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) has urged world leaders to put sustainable development into practice as quickly as possible.
The report, which was presented today to UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon, makes 56 …
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13 January, 2012
Thanks to timely work from members of the Alliance for Future Generations and others, the setting up of a High Commissioner or an Ombudsperson to protect the needs of future generations is now part of a draft declaration to be …
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20 November, 2011
FDSD teamed up with the Intergenerational Foundation to commission an opinion poll on British attitudes to future generations. The results were both surprising and heartening.
It seems that we British care much more than you might think about our future …
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1 November, 2011
The ‘Rio+20′ Working Group of the Alliance for Future Generations has published an open challenge paper(pdf 240k) in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) which will be held in June next year, 20 years on …
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6 August, 2011
We’re really pleased to announce that the recently-formed Alliance for Future Generations has now grown to 40 members. In just a few months the Alliance has grown to include 17 organisations (including leading environmental NGOs) and 23 individuals including well-respected …
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1 August, 2011
FDSD responded to the Environmental Audit Committee’s request to submit written evidence on preparations for Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development due to take place in 2012, 20 years on from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
In our …
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28 June, 2011
FDSD learned that new administrative arrangements for Hungary’s Commissioner for Future Generations could water down the role of this unique institution, despite strengthened protection for the environment and future generations in Hungary’s new constitution
So far, Hungary leads the world …
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15 June, 2011
Alliance for Future Generations members Alice Vincent and Rupert Read spoke at a seminar in Bristol on the rights of future generations.
The seminar, organised by the Alliance for Future Generations and the Schumacher Institute, was one of the first …
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21 March, 2011
The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has closed its doors after eleven years of carrying out a brief to try to make sustainable development the ‘operating system of choice’ for the four UK governments.
We are very sad to see them …
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3 March, 2011
It’s purpose is “to ensure that long-termism and the needs of future generations are brought into the heart of UK democracy and policy processes, in order to safeguard the earth and secure intergenerational justice.”
At the launch meeting it was …
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