Tag Archives: Sustainable development
Defra Consults on New Indicators to Measure UK’s Progress on Sustainable Development
Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman has launched a new consultation to gather responses to a set of proposed Sustainable Development Indicators designed to help measure the UK’s progress towards economic, social and environmental sustainability. “These new indicators will help us take … Continue reading
BES President Professor Georgina Mace talks to PLoS about Rio+20 and progress in the ‘limits to growth’ debate
BES President Professor Georgina Mace yesterday talked to the Public Library of Science’s (PLoS) Biology Podcast about the upcoming challenges faced at the Rio+20 talks, and considered whether recent papers on environmental limits to population growth show progress in this … Continue reading
Government to Publish National Planning Policy Framework
The Government will this afternoon publish the long-awaited National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which will simplify over 1,000 pages of planning guidance into just 50 pages and set out a ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’ that will apply across … Continue reading
Materials from WWF ‘Navigating the Perfect Storm’ event available
Presentation slides, audio and video recordings, photos and links from the joint WWF-UK and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) event ‘Navigating the Perfect Storm’ last month have been made available online. The evening was chaired by Professor John Beddington, Chief … Continue reading
Navigating the Perfect Storm: the international challenge of food, water and energy security
In 2009, Professor John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, used the term ‘perfect storm’ to describe the critical combination of food shortages, water scarcity and insufficient energy resources facing the world’s population, predicting these would come to a … Continue reading
UN reinforces Rio+20′s call for stronger science in policy-making
Echoing the call for better interchange between scientists and policy makers made in the draft agenda for the upcoming Rio+20 conference, a UN report published last week stresses that a strong scientific basis is critical in political decisions, particularly in … Continue reading