Show me the pattern…

I spent the day yesterday with a room full of worthy and well meaning people like myself who had given up a day to help shape the proposed Sustainable Development Bill. The minister, John Griffiths, opened they day with the usual introduction –

• Wales is one the first nation to have a legal requirement to adopt sustainable development as its organising principle;
• the Welsh government, whatever its colour is required to produce a scheme outlining how it intends to fulfil this requirement;
• the government will report annually on that scheme, however, until now there is no legal duty to produce a good scheme or a way of enforcing others to adopt sustainability as their organising principle.

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