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POLICY COHERENCE, SHOEHORNING and the SDGs Since the early 1990s, the OECD has been at the forefront of international efforts to promote policy coherence for development (PCD). The OECD has a strong track record in monitoring policy coherence efforts in its Member countries through peer reviews. While PCD has traditionally beenseen as the main responsibilityContinue reading “Policy Coherence and the Sustainable Development Goals”

A useful blog from Felix Dodds outlining key global sustainability events for 2020 Key Dates for 2020 – As we start to embrace the new decade – is this the roaring 20’s? January 04, 2020 The state of the world is not what we would have hoped for in 2015 when Heads of State agreedContinue reading “The Roaring 20’s?”

A new dilemma for those who advocate Veganism is on the agenda of the forthcoming Oxford Farming Conference. Farming and other interests are now arguing that it is vital we eat more lamb and beef because some crop plants and fish are being drained of essential nutrients.A heart specialist who is speaking at the conferenceContinue reading “MEAT OR VEG ?ANOTHER WICKED SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE!”

What should he do? From a single leak, a terrible breach might grow. The whole country could be flooded, and everyone he knew would drown.Like any well behaved and responsible boy he did the only thing he could think of. He stuck his finger in the dike, and the leak stopped.Of course, now he wasContinue reading “Once upon a time there was a little Dutch boy who discovered a leak in a North Sea dike in Holland( a story of flooding risk and its remedy adapted from the true story!)”

“As Aristotle put it long ago, human beings are distinguished from other species by our ability to use language. Yet too often, at our jobs and in our business, we don’t listen to one another. Invested in our views, we explain when we should inquire. Caught up in our own preconceptions, we disguise our feelingsContinue reading “The Ecology of Thought and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”

Tea and cucumber sandwiches with the only female Nobel Laureate, Dorothy Hodgkin and tea and banana breakfasts with a Ghandi! In early 1979, I was awarded a visiting science fellowship by the British Council at the University of Hyderabad, India. And, amongst a range of life affirming and memorable experiences, I was the only guestContinue reading “RIGHTS OF PASSAGE IN HYDERABAD”

I’m asking this question because I was interviewed by NBC Universal on Sunday about this. They are creating a programme about Greta and wanted some “expert” advice from someone who knows? A quick search on the internet and surprise surprise you will find a paper I and a few colleagues from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate wroteContinue reading “Did Environmental Education in Sweden help create the Phenomenon of Greta Thunberg?”

Epic tales of floods (climate change), knowledge, wisdom and uncertainty set the context to this ambitious CD recording by the Leeds based indie group-ILiKETRAiNS. Released at a time (2013) when the world’s leaders were struggling to come to terms with the impact of widening global austerity, major conflict zones and catastrophic and unpredictable weather systemsContinue reading “And we regret the process of our age … (ILiKETRAiNS)”

It’s not difficult to see our blighted little island as a “tiny speck” of land sitting rather vulnerably somewhere in the North Sea and within this speck more and more islands of communities cut off by floods for weeks and months. And in many of these communities there has been an unacceptable absence of resourcesContinue reading “LEARNING BY DROWNING?”