by Andrea Westall | Feb 2, 2023
Full paper → Introduction The grand challenges of our time – climate change, biodiversity loss and excessive inequality – are proving difficult for our current liberal democracies to tackle effectively. The inability to address them will not only negatively affect...
by kultur.work | Jan 18, 2022
As we move ever closer to 2030 – the arbitrary endpoint for the collectively agreed UN Sustainable Development Goals – and in a year when the commitments of the climate negotiations at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 will need to be further strengthened,...
by Andrea Westall | Sep 21, 2017
FDSD responded to the consultation by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on their proposed approach to measuring and reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the UK. The provision of adequate data on our progress towards the SDGs (both within...
by kultur.work | Jul 7, 2017
In response to the provocations by Peter Davies and Sándor Fülöp at the FDSD event ‘A Future Generations Commissioner for the UK’, Andrea Westall argues that we need to think beyond institutions in isolation. While Commissioners may have an important role...
by kultur.work | Feb 16, 2017
© Ferenc Cakó’s sand animation performance at the BWS 2016: Water Connects The theme of the Budapest Water Summit 2016 was that Water Connects across all aspects of sustainable development and across geographies. But to ensure against future conflict and...