Jane Davidson | ‍Net Zero Wales | Green Gathering | 5 August 2023

Will Wales show us how it's done again?
Jane is Chair of Wales Net Zero 2035 and author of #futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country - the story of how Wales became the first country in the world to legislate in the interest of future generations. Jane lives on a smallholding in west Wales, aiming to reduce her carbon footprint each year and is on a mission to mainstream sustainability. As Cabinet Minister for Environment and Sustainability in Wales she proposed legislation to make sustainability the central organising principle of government. The Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act, curriculum changes, the first plastic bag charge in the UK, recycling regulations that put Wales third best in the world, a Climate Change Commission for Wales, the post of Sustainable Futures Commissioner, One Planet Developments and the Wales Coast Path followed. ‍
Jane is a patron of the UK Chartered Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Managers and Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is an RSA Urban Futures Commissioner and a regular contributor to the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership programme at Harvard University’s T.H.Chan School of Public Health.‍
Jane’s guiding principle comes from John Rawls: ‘Do unto future generations what you would have had past generations do unto you.’
Recorded live at the 2023 Green Gathering, Chepstow, UK