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10/11/21
Wales leading the way with Future Generations Legislation – UN plans to adopt Welsh Approach
Wales is leading the way to protect future generations, the United Nations has said.
1/11/21
Commissioner at COP26
Wales has a huge story to tell at COP26 – our Well-being of Future Generations Act.
29/10/21
Black History Month: “Children should be taught about their histories so that it becomes a normal thing, not something abnormal and unknown.”
“When I look at my life it feels like I really take after my mother."
28/10/21
Black History Month: “I believe it’s important to remember that we, as Black people, don’t need to wait for one month out of the year – we can be celebrating each other at any time.”
“All my life I have wanted to become a doctor, however in my second year of studies, when I started plugging myself in to different communities and meeting different people...
22/10/21
Black History Month: “I felt that if we sit and watch the television and shout when we see injustice, it doesn’t help anyone. If you go out and put your head above the parapet, then a little change makes things better for people.”
“I grew up in Conway in St Lucia, and I had the most wonderful childhood - growing up in the Caribbean - playing ‘Ticky Tock’ with these nice little stones,...
17/10/21
Black History Month: “There is so much Black history that people just don’t know – it’s time to start learning.”
We’re celebrating Black History Month #proudtobe with stories from Black people across Wales on lessons Black history can teach us about the future. Here, Jessica Dunrod, 32, author, translator, and education and inclusion consultant, from...
8/10/21
Black History Month: “People of the Caribbean have a deep history with agriculture that is often overlooked.”
“I’ve always had a love for nature, and I gravitated towards it. Nature taught me what society wasn’t willing to."
1/10/21
Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Response to Welsh Government’s Well-being of Wales Report
"The Well-being of Wales Report is Welsh Government’s assessment of whether they are making progress against the seven national well-being goals set in law by the Well-being of Future Generations...
22/7/21
Wales needs to explore paying everyone a basic income – open letter to First Minister
Wales should explore paying everyone a basic income to study how it could improve lives for generations in the future, the First Minister is being urged.
12/7/21
We can end fuel poverty with £15bn retrofit investment plan for our homes, says Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Fuel poverty could be eradicated in Wales by 2030 if Welsh Government commits to a long-term plan to improve the efficiency of our homes, says the Future Generations Commissioner for...
7/7/21
Future Generations Commissioner for Wales asks for explanation into road freeze exemptions
The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, has asked Welsh Government to explain how decisions are being made on Wales’ road-building freeze exemptions.
30/6/21
Pressure mounts on UK Government to follow Welsh Government and back the Well-being of Future Generations Bill
More than two thirds of the public want the Government to consider future generations in policy-making – according to new research - and the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales is...
22/6/21
Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, welcomes the news that all new road building projects in Wales are being paused by Welsh Government
“This is a huge step in the right direction for the healthier, resilient and more equal Wales and shows the difference having a Well-being of Future Generations Act makes."
17/6/21
Climate change threat to our homes explored by Future Generations Commissioner’s poet in residence, Taylor Edmonds, with new poem commissioned by free event, Everything Change
‘the leaders, the people, they rolled over like spent dogs, yawned above the warnings’
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