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Click here to visualise the newsletter! We Are Celebrating the First Ever Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness! On November 27, political groups reached an agreement to approve the 26 commissioner-candidates after a series of contentious hearings. With this step complete, the Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture, and Sport is set to officially begin his mandate…

If today’s leaders were to propose changes to the way our climate and debt policies operate in order to better represent and safeguard the interests of future generations, how would current generations react? This is the key question behind the study “Governing for Future Generations: How Political Trust Shapes Attitudes Towards Climate and Debt Policies”…

In response to the urgent challenges of our time and aligned with the ongoing Future Generations Initiative, the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC), in collaboration with Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) and the University of Barcelona, organised a Future Generations Conference on October 3rd at UCLouvain’s Brussels campus. The event provided a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on the…

Representatives from the European Institutions and civil society gathered at the European Parliament on 17 October for “Europe for the Future: Developing Tools to Build an EU Fit for Future Generations”, an event organised by the Future Generations Initiative. The event opened with an address from Lídia Pereira, Portuguese MEP for the European People’s Party…

Click here to visualise the newsletter! Join us for the EP event As the next parliamentary term begins with the Commission hearings, the Future Generations Initiative will host an event to introduce MEPs and other attendees to the concept of Future Generations as a framework for addressing long-term challenges in EU legislation. An EU Commissioner…

At the beginning of this important parliamentary term this event will provide MEPs and other attendees an overview of the rights of Future Generations as a frame to address long-term challenges in EU legislation.  Soon after the United Nations Summit of the Future, 20-23 September, and in the context of upcoming Commissioner-candidate hearings this event will…

With the climate crisis, technological disruption, and rising inequality threatening the well-being of present and Future Generations, the UN Summit for the Future (22-23 September, 2024), became a pivotal moment for reinforcing intergenerational justice and sustainability, and to reinvigorate multilateralism and international cooperation. The outcome document, known as the “Pact for the Future,” covers key…

On 17 September, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen presented the list of commissioners-designate and their portfolios. For the first time, a Commissioner might be given responsibility for intergenerational fairness and ‘ensure that decisions are taken with future generations in mind’. The Maltese Glenn Micallef has been designated for such a…