{"id":252,"date":"2010-07-23T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=252"},"modified":"2010-07-23T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:53:27","slug":"not-really-sustainable-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/07\/23\/not-really-sustainable-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Not really sustainable after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.defra.gov.uk\/2010\/07\/22\/arms-length-bodies\/\">Defra<\/a> announced yesterday that it is to stop funding the Sustainable Development Commission [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sd-commission.org.uk\/\">SDC<\/a>] from next April. \u00a0 The Secretary of State's written notice <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.defra.gov.uk\/2010\/07\/22\/arms-length-bodies-statement\/\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On sustainability ... we are determined to play the lead role across the whole of government. We will mainstream sustainability, strengthen the government\u2019s performance in this area and put processes in place to join up activity across government much more effectively. I am not willing simply to delegate this responsibility to an external body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Focusing responsibility for sustainable development policy within Defra will improve accountability, avoid duplication and lead to essential efficiencies.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Put another way: we don't want any more advice from outsider experts, thanks all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Well, fittingly, and as we all know, want and need are two quite different things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defra announced yesterday that it is to stop funding the Sustainable Development Commission [SDC] from next April. \u00a0 The Secretary of State's written notice says: On sustainability ... we are determined to play the lead role across the whole of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}