Street art, Bridge St, Cardiff,2016.Wikicommons/ Jeremy Segrott. Some rights reserved.For the last 10 years I have had roles to perform concerned with holding decision makers accountable for future generations. First as vice chair and Commissioner for Wales UK Sustainable Development Commission and subsequently as Sustainable Futures Commissioner for Wales.
These roles reflected the duty to promote sustainable development which was embedded in the Government of Wales Act. This sustainable development duty has been a distinctive part of the devolution journey and has recently been strengthened with the ground-breaking Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act which has established a statutory Future Generations Commissioner with legal powers and duties.
In reflecting on the roles of such Commission functions It is interesting to re-read the final statement from the UK Sustainable Development Commission at its untimely termination by the UK Government in 2010:
