As the Negotiations Around Brexit are Ongoing, What Issues of Sustainable Development Should our Leaders be Concerned With? - Maddie
There has been a focus on sustainable development since the release of the Brundtland Report in 1987. The report defines Sustainable Development as “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. The most recent global agreement is the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The EU subsequently published its own matching agenda for sustainable development in 2016. The UK is currently bound by both. In 2015 the UK referendum committed the UK to Brexit, the largest economic and political hiatus since the Second World War. To explore the issues our leaders should be concerned with I will evaluate what the UK has agreed to in relation to sustainable development, how much focus sustainable development has had in Brexit, the implication of the type of Brexit on sustainable development goals and the UK’s commitment to sustainable development in two key policy areas, ...