First they axe the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), now they are trying to kill off sustainable development (SD) itself.
Mrs Spelman put out a paper on Monday under the compelling title ‘Mainstreaming Sustainable Development: The Government’s vision and what this means in practice’. It is, without a doubt, the most disgraceful government document relating to SD that I have ever seen.
Far from demonstrating how sustainable development will be mainstreamed across government (which was the commitment it made when it axed the SDC), it reveals that its clear intent is to marginalise SD over the next four years, to the point where it will be all but invisible.
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