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At the heart of the notion of sustainable development lies the very big idea of justice between generations. What makes economic development either sustainable or unsustainable is the degree to which it not only produces substantive economic benefits for people alive today (in terms of jobs,…

If you segment ‘the history of the modern environment movement’ over the last 45 years, (seen through the lens of my governance triangle – see below), there would be three main stages. The first stage was mostly about national governments instigating a massive roll out of environmental regulation,…

For reasons beyond my control, I missed out on my annual Ashden fix last week (the Awards ceremony was on Thursday 22 May), and have had to make do with checking out the website, reading up on the winners, and getting the usual brilliant feedback from those who were lucky enough to be there. The…

In the north-west corner of Greenland, there’s a community of a few hundred Inuit people in a place called Qaanaaq. They don’t spend a lot of time talking about the theory of climate change, simply because their lives are already impacted by climate change day in, day out. As temperature rise and…

Imagine the scene amongst the eager and idealistic employees of Stakeholder Forum. SF boss: “Ok guys, exactly what do we have to do to get people focussed on this governance stuff? Nobody seems remotely interested. DON’T THEY REALISE JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT IS??!!” (Long - and somewhat…

Offsetting remains so controversial – but I spent quite some time last week wondering why. And that’s because it was a great week for ‘offsetting done well’. First up was the announcement from ClimateCare that it’s just won a sustainable development award under the Queen’s Award for Enterprise –…