Sustainable development breakthroughs suggested for UK

3 July 2009

The Sustainable Development Commission has unveiled 19 ideas which could transform the UK into a sustainable society. The SDC’s ‘Breakthroughs for the 21st Century’ project sets out to identify the ideas which could make the biggest impact on Britain’s efforts to tackle climate change, resource depletion and inequality.

SDC chair Jonathon Porritt, said, ‘Progress on sustainable development, at the national level, has been slow. Yet all over the country, there are people taking action to make their own communities more sustainable, driving forward technological innovations, and pushing the policy agenda with really big ideas.

Some of the Breakthrough ideas we’ve selected represent cutting-edge innovation and imagination; others are familiar but powerful ideas whose time has come. We wanted to celebrate the hard work behind these ideas, and start a bigger conversation about how the UK can best take these – and a host of other great ideas – forward. We’ve been talking about it for long enough. What we’ve got to do now is make it happen,’ he added.

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2 Responses to “Sustainable development breakthroughs suggested for UK”

1. martin hogan says:

   4 July 2009 at 3:58 pm

   Simple points missing:
   There is no restraint on the building of out of town shopping, hospitals, schools, business parks, closing local facilities.

   Once you have a car, it will be used, so you need to work on ways of stopping people buying cars.

   regards
2. Paul McLachlan says:

   6 July 2009 at 11:39 am

   Designing infrastructure that does not demand the use of individual personal transport is a good medium term strategy. We also need to be pushing less car around. High utility factor is important (less vehicle/more cargo). The compact Pivotal hydrogen engine is a strategic technology for low mass vehicles. Battery vehicles will have their place in the market but will never meet the need for versitile long range transport.
   Paul

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