Education

The education session set out to collect the ideas and opinions of the participants as an orientation on the subject of education. The education session started off with unanimous agreement among the participants regarding the crucial role of education with...
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Panelists: Wim Bartels (KPMG), werkt op het bredere gebied van corporate reporting; Remco Renes (NBU), werkt met name op het gebied van corporate governance; Tineke Lambooy (NBU), is hoogleraar ondernemingsrecht. Tijd: 14:15 – 16:00 uur. Sessie werd gestart met een...
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Ecological (and economic) aspects of sustainability are often emphasised at the expense of social aspects of sustainability. In order to represent the interests of future generations, the ombudsperson should equally uphold all pillars of sustainability, whether economic, social or ecological....
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The participants of the break out session on Environment and Land Use developed recommendations for the Ombudsperson for Future Generations in the Netherlands. They strongly support the idea of an Ombudsperson for future generations, while the organisation should also invest...
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Knowledge related to future generations is still combined with a linear way of thinking on divided and separate fields and disciplines. However, a cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary collaboration is emerging with sustainable development. When such a new topic starts to be...
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In order to include future generations and their equity/rights, we need to include the notion into our institutions. A precondition for that is independence as an Ombudsperson since that person needs to be able to speak up and be listened...
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