by kultur.work | Oct 17, 2022 | News and Comment
On 20 September 2022, FDSD partnered with the Institute for Government and the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge to hold a workshop at IfG on Building a more effective and participatory government—to improve policy-making and delivery. Participants from...
by kultur.work | Oct 11, 2022
On 20 September 2022, FDSD partnered with the Institute for Government and the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge to hold a workshop at IfG on Building a more effective and participatory government—to improve policy-making and delivery. Participants from...
by Ariella Shalev | Feb 21, 2022 | News and Comment
The article “Can Cities Use the Doughnut Model to Hack Liberal Democracy?” published by Olivia Lazard in Carnegie Europe in February 2022, explores some of the challenges of creating sustainable economic systems. The Doughnut Model developed by Kate...
by kultur.work | Apr 29, 2020
From the OECD website: “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an integrated and coherent set represents a major challenge to all countries. Addressing interactions between economic, social and environmental goals in a balanced manner,...
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 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 Dimple Roy | Feb 16, 2017 | News and Comment
Dimple Roy is Director, Water, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). When it comes to safeguarding the future of our natural habitats, natural resources, livelihoods, and economies for future generations, we now have the guidance of the...
by kultur.work | Nov 9, 2016
The world’s first universal set of Sustainable Development Goals came into force on 1 January 2016. How do we translate the ambition of 17 Goals and 169 Targets into transformational action in the UK? Save the date The UKSSD Annual Conference will take place on the...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 14, 2016
In September 2016, we responded to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry: The sustainable development goals in the UK. You can find our submission on the EAC website. We argued that currently Whitehall is not publicly stating, acknowledging or realising the...
by kultur.work | Aug 10, 2016 | News and Comment
“Brexit means Brexit,” said Theresa May in one of her first public statements as Prime Minister. But what does that mean – for agriculture, fisheries, the environment and climate change in the UK? These were the leading questions in a recent study by Dr Charlotte...
by Emily Auckland | Jul 22, 2016 | News and Comment
One month on and questions are still being asked about how we got here. The only thing that’s clear, it seems, is that Brexit suggests a deep division between inward- and outward-facing worldviews: control our borders and attempt to reduce the strain on our...
by John Lotherington | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
As everyone woke up to Brexit on 24 June, there was a dawning realization that we were in uncharted territory. The campaign was focused on what we were trying to avoid, not where we wanted to head. That was true of the Remainers, with their increasingly...
by kultur.work | Jun 15, 2016 | News and Comment
In September 2015, 193 UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) – an ambitious set of 169 targets that commits all signatory countries to tackle issues from gender inequality to climate change, access to quality education and...
by kultur.work | Jun 7, 2016
As the EU Referendum draws closer much has been reported in the media about what leaving the EU would mean for the economy, immigration and travel abroad. But what would leaving the EU mean for Equalities? Would leaving the EU mean more or less protection for minority...
by Andrea Westall | May 30, 2016
Charlotte Burns and Viviane Gravey argue that the EU Referendum debate in the UK has been “surprisingly quiet on the issue of the environment”. They look at three options for the UK from the point of view of their impacts on participatory democracy, as...
by Graham Smith | May 25, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and a specialist in democratic innovation and citizen engagement, with a particular interest in climate politics and the representation of future generations. He...
by kultur.work | May 21, 2016 | News and Comment
Whether it’s direct or indirect, climate change will have an impact on public health. A recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Economics Foundation reviews current local strategies by public health institutions to address climate change. In...
by kultur.work | Feb 22, 2016 | News and Comment
In her recent blog for the Project Syndicate, Anne-Marie Slaughter, former president of the American Society of International Law, offers an optimistic take on the non-binding nature of the Paris Agreement. As she argues: “its deficits in this regard are its...
by Nick Aveling | Jan 26, 2016 | News and Comment
János Zlinksy, one of our longest serving Trustees and an advisor to the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, reflects on the relationship between the Paris COP and the Sustainable Development Goals Interview by Nick Aveling There’s been a lot of...
by kultur.work | Dec 18, 2015 | News and Comment
“Habemus consensus!” a Huffington Post article reads, summarising the sanguine diplomatic outcome of the COP21 conference in Paris. It might not be as binding as hoped by the hundreds of thousands of people engaging in the climate march; it does, however, signify a...
