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EDC has released its response to the One Wales: One Planet Consultation on a new Sustainable Development Scheme for Wales. The consultation was launched by the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) on 19th November 2008 for a 3 month period, which closed on 4th February 2009.
The newly stated Sustainable Development Scheme (SDS) has got three main aims. Firstly, it will define a long-term vision of a sustainable Wales that is real, relevant and meaningful to the people of Wales and its organisations. Secondly, it will set out specific outcomes that the WAG will seek to achieve through its main policies and programmes. Lastly, it will aspire to specify processes that the WAG will put in place to ensure its work coherently reflects the goals of sustainable development.
In the response to the consultation, EDC brought a few comments forward which we would like to draw attention to. EDC recognises the challenge of trying to prepare a strategy document that is so far reaching and appreciates the dilemma of trying to exert levels of control and offer appropriate support across many policy areas.
- The SDS is a framework strategy document that only puts forward principles for sustainable development and does not adequately discuss how to align these principles with other policy areas.
- There is a need for a clear view on the overall governance of the scheme and more emphasis on implementation measures.
- EDC believes that the objective of capacity building is fundamental to all fields. This significance needs to be reflected within the strategy.
Click on the link to read the document ‘One Wales: One Planet Consultation on a new Sustainable Development Scheme for Wales’.
Click on the link to read the full EDC’s response to the ‘One Wales: One Planet, consultation on a new sustainable development scheme for Wales’.
5 February 2009
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