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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 for Intergenerational Fairness
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 post which also covers Youth, Culture and Sport.
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Check out our video on ‘Future Generations’
UN Pact for the Future adopted
On Sunday 22, during the Summit of the Future, world leaders meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York adopted the Pact for the Future.
The Pact includes the annexed Declaration on Future Generations, focusing on guaranteeing the well-being of future generations, while emphasising the need to include their interests in decision-making processes.
Upcoming events
Future Generations Conference
When and Where: October 3. 2024 09:30-18:00, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles
More info: Representing the rights of Future Generations in the legislative work of the EU is an opportunity that brings a long-term perspective to our political thinking in the age of the poly-crisis. Europe was always a long-term journey, never complete but an ongoing experiment in political imagination. Are we on the pathway we want to take? What future are we building for our children and grandchildren? In the age of climate change, rapid digital transformation, geopolitical uncertainty and environmental destruction the fate of Future Generations is increasingly uncertain.
Future Generations in the Media
- Glenn Micallef assigned youth portfolio by Ursula von der Leyen
- United Nations adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance
- Summit of the Future Explainer: Protect future generations from global decisions made today
- New commissioner for intergenerational fairness is the EU’s ticket out of permacrisis
- Trevor Hancock: We need a ‘Well-being of Future Generations Act’
- ‘Keep me in mind’ is what future generations expect
- Why a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is the Only Way to Protect Future Generations
- South Korea’s climate law violates rights of future generations, court rules
- Wales’ Future Generations Act inspires new legislation in India
- The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 (Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
- Creating a Resilient Society for Future Generations
- Task forces to develop policies on climate and intergenerational justice
- ‘All of us urgently need to band together to pass a robust and just Earth to future generations,’ says expert
- SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE: ‘We fear the pact will be yet another document with high ideals but little practical impact’
- Climate Conversations – Earth Overshoot Day: Will future generations pay for our ecological deficits?
- We Must Act Globally to Safeguard the Future of Humanity | Opinion
- Protect future generations from global decisions made today