{"id":6880,"date":"2017-01-31T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2017-01-31T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T09:16:41","slug":"ukssds-open-letter-to-the-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/01\/31\/ukssds-open-letter-to-the-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UKSSD\u2019s open letter to the Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Stakeholder's for sustainable development [<a href=\"http:\/\/ukssd.co.uk\">UKSSD<\/a>] wrote an open <a href=\"http:\/\/ukssd.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/UKSSD-Open-Letter-to-PM-re-SDGs.pdf\">letter<\/a> to Mrs May last week. \u00a0It was published in the Times. \u00a0It's here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Prime Minister,<\/p>\n<p>As a group of businesses investing in making our economy fit for the future, we support sustainable development in the UK. This is essential for our long-term prosperity and the wellbeing of generations to come. \u00a0The UK Government played a leading role in developing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and adopted them just over a year ago. As businesses, we\u2019re ready to take responsibility and work with the Government to make sure the SDGs are delivered in the UK and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable development will create jobs, increase competitiveness and secure the natural resources our economy relies on. \u00a0We support your Government to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate to business your commitment to deliver the SDGs in the UK<\/li>\n<li>Work with businesses to deliver the SDGs, creating a transparent reporting framework and clear benchmarks<\/li>\n<li>Require all departments, not only the Department for International Development, to work with business and other stakeholders to develop an SDG delivery plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together we can build a fairer, sustainable and more prosperous Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was struck by three\u00a0things. \u00a0The first was the clunky wording, but I'm used to that. \u00a0The second was that I'd not heard of ~50% of the companies that signed it (but I do live a sheltered life), and the third\u00a0was that were no (as far as I could see) education bodies involved. \u00a0Not even the ubiquitous EAUC was there, although it is now a member of UKSSD; nor was UUK. \u00a0What does this say? \u00a0Well, it might say that this was just about business and what <em>it<\/em> can do. \u00a0But education <em>is<\/em> a business, and it is certainly working to \"build a fairer, sustainable and more prosperous Britain\". \u00a0I also wondered where was the TUC, but that's another story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Stakeholder's for sustainable development [UKSSD] wrote an open letter to Mrs May last week. \u00a0It was published in the Times. \u00a0It's here: Dear Prime Minister, As a group of businesses investing in making our economy fit for the future,...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880","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=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}