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Sustainable Development Commission

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The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly Government, and Northern Ireland Executive on sustainable development. [1]

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Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

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Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom

The anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom consists of groups who oppose nuclear technologies such as nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

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Charles Secrett

Charles Secrett is an environmental activist, head of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1993-2003.

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Choice editing

Choice editing refers to the active process of controlling or limiting the choices available to consumers so as to drive to an end goal, specifically by banning things or imposing punitive taxation.

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Deirdre Hutton

Dame Deirdre Mary Hutton (born 15 March 1949), is a British public servant, termed by the British media as "Queen of the Quangos" and "The great quango hopper".

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Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom

Environmental inequality in the United Kingdom is the way in which the quality of the environment differs between different communities in the UK.

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Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington

Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington DL, (born 24 November 1949) is a landowner and life peer who sits as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.

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Green Investment Group

Green Investment Group Limited (GIG) is a specialist in green infrastructure principal investment, project delivery and the management of portfolio assets, and related services.

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Hossain Zillur Rahman

Hossain Zillur Rahman is an academic, economist and policy maker from Bangladesh.

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Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a leading British environmentalist and writer.

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List of anti–nuclear power groups

Anti-nuclear power groups have emerged in every country that has had a nuclear power programme.

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List of government departments, their agencies and their ministers in Northern Ireland

A list of Northern Ireland government departments, their agencies and their ministers and related organisations.

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List of University of Oxford people in British public life

This is a list of University of Oxford people in British public life.

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Masood Ul Mulk

Masood Ul Mulk (مسود الملک) is a leading Pakistani expert on humanitarian aid and a renowned development practitioner.

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Material Concerns

Material Concerns is a book by author and economist Tim Jackson.

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Personal carbon trading

Carbon rationing, as a means of reducing CO2 emissions to contain climate change, could take any of several forms.

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Planet Earth: The Future

Planet Earth: The Future is a 2006 BBC documentary series on the environment and conservation, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit as a companion to the multi-award winning nature documentary Planet Earth.

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Pro-nuclear movement

There are large variations in peoples’ understanding of the issues surrounding nuclear power, including the technology itself, climate change, and energy security.

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Prosperity

Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune or successful social status.

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Prosperity Without Growth

Prosperity Without Growth (2009/2017) is a book by author and economist Tim Jackson.

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Renewable energy in Scotland

The production of renewable energy in Scotland is an issue that has come to the fore in technical, economic, and political terms during the opening years of the 21st century.

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SDC

SDC may refer to.

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Severn Barrage

The Severn Barrage refers to a range of ideas for building a barrage from the English coast to the Welsh coast over the Severn tidal estuary.

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Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study

Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study is the name of a UK Government feasibility study into a tidal power project looking at the possibility of using the huge tidal range in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel to generate electricity.

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Steady-state economy

A steady-state economy is an economy consisting of a constant stock of physical wealth (capital) and a constant population size.

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Stern Review

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the Government of the United Kingdom on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE) and also chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds University and LSE.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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Tim Jackson (economist)

Tim Jackson FAcSS (born 1957) is a British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey.

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William Day

William Day may refer to.

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2010 UK quango reforms

Following the 2010 United Kingdom general election, the UK Government announced plans to curb public spending through the abolition of a large number of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Commission

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