Future Justice Library
Official Political Documents
UNESCO Declaration on the Responsibilities of Current Generations towards Future Generations, 1997
Rio Declaration of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), 1992
Legal Act establishing the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations, 1993, and Amendment of the Hungarian Ombudsman Mandate, 2011
Official Knesset paper concerning the Commission for Future Generations in Israel, 2000
“Our Common Future”. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987
Setting up the position of a “Keeper of the Long View”. New Zealand Environment Act, 1986
Legal and Academic Research Papers
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and WFC: Study on the Official Representation of Future Generations
Harvard Human Rights Clinic: Study on Models for Protecting the Environment for Future Generations, 2008
Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations: Documentation of the conference “Ways to Legally Implement the Rights of Future Generations”, 2010
Benedek Jávor and Judit Rácz: Do we Owe them a Future? The opportunities of a representation for future generations in Europe, 2006
Peter Roderick for WFC: Protecting Future Generations in EU Law: Model Regulation Proposal, 2010
Peter Roderick: Taking the longer view: UK governance options for a finite planet, 2010
CLI Project, US: Draft for Legal Representation of Future Generations
Dr. Maja Göpel, Solutions Journal: Guarding our Future: How to Protect Future Generations, 2011
Future Leaders Project and Institute for Legal Studies of the Australian Catholic University: Future Justice Research Book, 2010
Peter Roderick: Text proposal for a UNCSD 2012, 2011
Dr. Maja Göpel, Effectius: Intergenerational Environmental Justice: tackling a democratic deficit with Ombudspersons for future generations, 2011
Policy Briefs, Presentations and Speeches
Policy brief Ombudspersons for Future Generations,2011
Policy brochure Guarding our Future, 2010: For Future Justice the mandate of Ombudspersons needs to include the elements important for social resilience and diversity, such as the existence of sound and just governance institutions, the absence of violent conflict, economic security, cultural diversity, etc. Our policy brochure Guarding our Future explains what are the core features of an effective Guardian for Future Generations.
Position paper on Future Justice starts today, 2009: For a detailed overview about the Future Justice programme, its background and policy proposals consult the World Future Council's position paper on Future Justice starts today.
UNICEF: A brighter tomorrow: climate change, child rights and intergenerational justice
Prof. Burns H. Weston & Prof. Tracy Bach, Vermont Law Centre: Recalibrating the
Law of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational Justice, 2009
Dr. Maja Göpel: Speech on Intergenerational Justice at the Bureau of European Policy Advisors, 2011
Dr. Rama Mani: Speech on Effective Governance of Our Common Future at the Bureau of European Policy Advisors, 2011
Dr. Maja Göpel: Presentation on A European Guardian for Future Generations, 2010
Media Discussions
Green Times of South Africa writes about the World Future Council's Policies for the Future, 2012
Outreach Magazine: Why we should bring Future Generations to the Negotiating Table, 2011
Outreach Magazine: Ombudspersons for Future Generations: Addressing the growing burdens for those that follow us, 2011
Euractiv: Giving our future a face: We need guardians for long-term well-being, 2010
Spiegel Online: Interview with Sándor Fülöp, Hungarian Commissioner for Future Generations, and Shlomo Shoman, former Israeli Commissioner for Future Generations (German), 2010
ZEIT Online: Article on a Sustainability Watchdog by Professor Andreas Troge (German), 2011
New York Times - Dot Earth Blog: Does the Future Need A Legal Guardian?, 2007
Tagesspiegel: Interview with Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Die Diktatur des Jetzt überwinden, 2011
ZEIT Print & Online: Unsere Märkte sind zukunftsblind by Dr. Maja Göpel, 2011
Links
Sándor Fülöp, Hungarian Commissioner for Future Generations
Annual Report 2010 from the Hungarian Commissioner for Future Generations
Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (Germany; in multiple languages)
Foundation Democracy and Sustainability (UK)
Seventh Generation (US)
Future Justice Research Programme (AUS)
Vegdyglet (The Hungarian NGO behind the first campaign for an Ombudsperson for Future Generations)
Stiftung Zukunftsrat (Switzerland)
Finnish Committee for the Future (Official Parliamentary Committee) (English)
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