by Andrea Westall | Mar 20, 2013
If implemented now, a Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability, which launches today with the support of a diverse group of founder signatories, could set a course for change. Its six Principles focus on areas where democracy as a political system most urgently...
by Andrea Westall | Nov 20, 2011
Announcement of research initiated by FDSD and the Intergenerational Foundation and conducted by IPSOS-MORI, exploring public attitudes to future decision-making by Government. Overall, more than two thirds of British people believe that the UK Government considers...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 26, 2011
FDSD comments at the time of the launch of Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) Eighth Report – Preparations for the Rio+20 Summit warning that business as usual may rule the day at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012. Download Press Release...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 10, 2011
FDSD and WWF argue that the report from the UK’s Environmental Audit Committee Embedding Sustainable Development across Government did not go far enough in calling for urgent institutional reform, as well as creating a coherent cross-government strategy to ensure...
by Andrea Westall | Jun 1, 2010
Open letter from group of ten civil society organisations, including FDSD, to ask the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to adopt a “New Politics for the Future” to tackle short-termism in contemporary politics, including...
by Andrea Westall | Feb 25, 2010
Advance notice of a jointly-organised event by FDSD and UKELA (UK Environmental Law Association) at the Ministry of Justice in London where Dr Sándor Fülöp, Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations, spelt out lessons from his first year and a half...
by Andrea Westall | Sep 25, 2009
Open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the second International Day of Democracy, 15th September 2009, warning that unless governments step up immediate efforts to tackle climate change, the result could be significant incursions into...
