How Will You Use this Blog to Communicate the Well-being of Future Generations Act?

Sut mae? We hope you’ve been having a successful and learning-full time as we commemorate the tenth Anniversary of the Well-being of Future Generations Act.

This is first blog post in a while and we’re please to be back posting through this Blog. Stay tuned for future updates on the Wellbeing of Wales Report 2025 and the Future Trends Report.

Here in Welsh Government, we have been using this opportunity to improve our communications around the Act. We have developed an internal WFG communications plan that is shared between several teams. This plan will support the re-fresh of our Continuous Learning and Improvement Plan (CLIP 2026-29).

The main focus of the plan is on using the Act to maximise re-engagement, enchantment and re-energising ourselves to do our work in a more sustainable way. We’ve been looking at the Act with fresh eyes to (further) deepen our understanding and application of the Sustainable Development Principle and the Five Ways of Working.

Working with the Future Generations Commissioner and others, we have created new tools which we want to share. We hope that you, too, will use and share these with others. We welcome feedback and collaboration on how to make best use of them.

Some great tools and opportunities already exist. We have been coming back to some of these and sharing our experiences with colleagues.

What’s new on the scene?

All the tools and opportunities above combine to make a strong suite that we draw on throughout our day jobs, careers, volunteering and other roles. They can be used by individuals or within teams, organisations and communities throughout Wales.

In Welsh Government, we’re using a simple system of inviting leadership and project teams to engage with one of the items above and to meet to talk about it together.

…and we’re not finished yet. Again in collaboration with others, watch this space for new websites about the practices that underpin the Act. Coming soon!


Guest blog: How will climate change impact Wales in the future?

The Future Trends Report 2021 will feature ‘Planetary Health and Limits’ as a key driver of change for Wales’ well-being. Within this, climate change has become an independent driver of changes to our economy, society and environment, exacerbating existing risks. We are therefore pleased that our first guest blog is written by Miriam Kennedy, Senior Analyst at the Climate Change Committee, on how climate change will impact Wales’ future.

In June 2021, the Climate Change Committee published its 3rd Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk (CCRA3), a comprehensive assessment of the priority risks and opportunities facing the UK from climate change. The report draws on an extensive programme of analysis, consultation and consideration by the Committee involving over 450 people, 130 organisations and more than 1,500 pages of evidence and analysis, compiled over three years.

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