by kultur.work | Aug 10, 2018 | News and Comment
A new paper by the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, authored by FDSD associate Victor Anderson, considers possible reforms to UK constitutional and political arrangements intended to help overcome the problem of a lack of representation of...
by kultur.work | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog, News and Comment
The Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development has proposed that the House of Lords establish a Committee for Future Generations to review legislation. It is hoped that such a body would reduce the short-termism that can creep into legislative and executive...
by Andrea Westall | May 6, 2018 | News and Comment
On 19th April 2018, FDSD jointly held an event with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries to ask “Will the Future Blame Us?” and how do we bring future generations into today’s politics. The audience, a mix of actuaries, academics, policy-makers and civil society,...
by Graham Smith | Apr 6, 2018 | News and Comment
For the first time in 25 years, the House of Lords Liaison Committee is reviewing the structure and function of committees in the second chamber. FDSD is making the most of the opportunity to propose a new Committee for Future Generations to bring long-term...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 6, 2018 | News and Comment
A new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Future Generations, launched in January 2018, aims to raise the profile of future generations amongst UK parliamentarians and others. Chaired by Daniel Zeichner, MP, the new group will “raise awareness of...
by Graham Smith | Apr 6, 2018 | News and Comment
Sophie Howe, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, has published her Strategic Plan to cover the period 2017-2023. We are delighted to find that we are on the same wavelength: the plan explicitly highlights the importance of effective partnerships and...
by kultur.work | Feb 10, 2018 | News and Comment
The FDSD and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries are delighted to invite you to a joint evening event on 19 April 2018 in London. Bringing together experts from the policymaking community with academics and those from the actuarial profession and elsewhere...
by kultur.work | Dec 20, 2017 | News and Comment
“It is much easier for us to imagine the end of the world than a small change in the political system”, Slavoj Zizek famously said. The same is true for altering the earth climate system according to a recent report by the Canadian ETC-Group, BiofuelWatch and...
by Andrea Westall | Dec 17, 2017 | News and Comment
An All-Parliamentary Group for Future Generations has just been set up in the House of Commons with the aim to “raise the profile of issues affecting future generations in Parliament and explore ways to institutionalise representation of future generations.” It is...
by kultur.work | Nov 28, 2017 | News and Comment
There are many reasons why more democratic and deliberative approaches to economics are necessary and valuable: shaping better and more informed economic decisions, promoting transparency over economic priorities, and strengthening the quality of democracy and public...
by kultur.work | Nov 24, 2017 | News and Comment
As environmental crises become ever more severe, voices are reappearing that call for authoritarian solutions: Democracy, so the argument goes, has proven to be too slow to respond to urgent threats, and so a stronger, authoritarian hand is needed to push through the...
by Andrea Westall | Sep 21, 2017 | News and Comment
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...
by kultur.work | Sep 11, 2017 | News and Comment
Development cooperation isn’t only a matter between national governments anymore, a recent article by Stefano Marta and Aziza Akhmouch from the OECD finds – collaboration proves to be rather successful between local and regional authorities in different...
by kultur.work | Jul 12, 2017 | News and Comment
The Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales has recently celebrated its first anniversary. This newsletter edition is dedicated to this important milestone.
by kultur.work | Jul 7, 2017 | News and Comment
Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, reflects on her first year in office. The United Nations has said, “What Wales is doing today, we hope the world will do tomorrow – action more than words is the hope for our future generations”. Listening and...
by kultur.work | Jul 7, 2017 | News and Comment
The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales was established just over a year ago. We talked to Anne Meikle, Head of WWF Cymru, to reflect on this novel institution. What role did WWF Cymru play in establishing the commissioner? WWF and other members of the...
by Victor Anderson | Jul 6, 2017 | News and Comment
Victor Anderson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. What do the election manifestos and Queen’s Speech tell us about the state of the constitutional reform debate in the UK and its relationship to sustainable...
by kultur.work | Jun 25, 2017 | Blog, News and Comment
Widespread public participation is important not only for working out the best ideas to tackle complex problems or effectively implement change, but also to create agreement for major transitions in society or the economy. Simon Roberts, CEO of the Centre for...
by kultur.work | May 29, 2017 | News and Comment
A new global study published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has found that the number of lawsuits involving climate change has tripled since 2014, with most of climate change litigation cases being...
by kultur.work | May 8, 2017 | News and Comment
The last week of April, FDSD Trustee and Director of the School of International Futures, Cat Tully, was invited to guest edit openDemocracy on the theme “Participation and foresight – putting people at the heart of the future”. Twenty contributors from across...
