There is a huge amount of English legislation directly or indirectly imbued with Sustainable Development (“SD”) duties and an equally large amount of overlapping guidance on “SD”. The lack of one core SD framework creates a lack of clarity on what those SD statutory duties are how they are discharged.
ERIC was commissioned by WWF to shed light on the nature and scope of such duties, how government used their discretion in their discharge, factors taken into account in the application of such duties and the rationality of implementing decisions. Eric was also asked to look into models for a future generation ombudsman who could monitor SD duties in view of the lack of a coherent legal framework.
