UN High Commissioner for Future Generations
A new discussion paper has been published on how a UN High Commissioner for Future Generations could function.
World Future Council and Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, with others, have drafted the paper in response to the UN Rio+20 ‘zero draft’ text that proposes the establishment of such an institution.
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World Future Council states that:
One of the key areas we have identified is that a High Commissioner for Future Generations should not be ‘to promote sustainable development’, but rather to promote and protect the interests of future generations, with the Brundtland Commission definition of sustainable development in mind:
“development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
Download the paper here.
