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Introduction / Marcel Szabó, Marie Claire Cordonier Segger & Alexandra R. Harrington -- The theoretical framework for international legal principles of intergenerational equity and implementation through national institutions / Edith Brown Weiss -- International Treaty Law and policy for future generations / Marie Claire Cordonier Segger -- Intergenerational justice under International Treaty Law : the obligations of the state to future generations / Marcel Szabó -- The use of International Human Rights norms to implement international solidarity / Dinah Shelton - Future generations as a counterweight / Halina Ward -- Future generations institutions to implement international obligations towards future generations / Sándor Fülöp -- Sustainability in European Constitutional Law / András Jakab -- The principle of intergenerational solidarity in reshaping constitutional rights and obligations : an example from Portugal / Marisa Quaresma Dos Reis -- Time to think : sustainable development, future generations and the individual / Ludwig Krämer -- Claims and petitions regarding environment preservation for future generations / Renato Machado -- Reasons and means of public participation / Gyula Bándi -- Giving the voice of the future a word in the present / Julia Pitts -- Unsustainability as an economic problem / Gábor Bartus -- Intergenerational equity and the European Constitution / Markus Gehring & Alexandra Harrington -- Scientific uncertainty as a key obstacle to efficient legal protection of the environmental interests of future generations / Katalin Sulyok -- Transformative knowledge and solutions in sustainability governance / Günther Bachmann -- Institutions for a sustainable future : the former Israeli Commission for Future Generations / Shlomo Shoham & Frederike Kurre -- Norway - Norwegian Ombudsman for Children / Ole Kristian Fauchald & Elisabeth Gording Stang -- Institutions for a sustainable future : The German Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development / Franz Reimer -- Power over coming generations - Committee for the Future in the Eduskunta, the Parliament of Finland / Paula Tiihonen -- Welsh Commissioner for Sustainable Futures / Alan Netherwood & Andrew Flynn -- Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, New Zealand / Jonathan Boston -- Canadian Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development / David Wright & James McKenzie -- Intergenerational Justice in Colombian Governance & Peace Accords / Alexandra R. Harrington & Maria Pilar Vanegas Guzman -- Indigenous peoples and inter-generational equity in Mexico / Odeeth Lara Morales -- Legal Innovations for inter-generational justice in sustainable landscapes management of Democratic Republic of Congo / Erick Kassongo -- Local indigenous planning instruments for intergenerational equity in Ahousaht Traditional Territories of Canada / Tara Dawn Atleo -- Representing future generations : an ecological perspective on intergenerational justice / Kata Fodor -- A comparative analysis of model institutions : diversity in reaching common goals / Judit Pump -- Comparing progress in inter-generational governance / Marie Claire Cordonier Segger, Alexandra Harrington, Sebastien Jodoin, Sumudu Atapattu, Salim Nakjavani & Jaykumar Menon -- International institutions for future generations and democratic legitimacy / Peter Lawrence -- A European Human Rights perspective on national sustainable development institutions / Christina Binder -- Embedding intergenerational justice across government : regional trends in Africa / Damilola Olawuyi -- Intergenerational Equity, Justice, and Modern Treaties between First Nations Communities and Canada / Marie Claire Cordonier Segger & Alexandra R. Harrington -- Institutions for Future Generations in Asia / Antonio G.M. La Viña & Gregorio Rafael P. Buetal -- Equity across generations in implementing International Law on Water / Otto Spijkers -- Intergenerational Justice in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change / Marie Claire Cordonier Segger -- The four branches model of government - representing future generations / Joerg Chet Tremmel -- Intergenerational equity in sustainable development Treaty Implementation / Marie Marcel Szabó, Marie Claire Cordonier Segger & Alexandra R. Harrington.

Economic, technological, social and environmental transformations are affecting all humanity, and decisions taken today will impact the quality of life for all future generations. This volume surveys current commitments to sustainable development, analysing innovative policies, practices and procedures to promote respect for intergenerational justice. Expert contributors provide serious scholarly and practical discussions of the theoretical, institutional, and legal considerations inherent in intergenerational justice at local, national, regional and global scales. They investigate treaty commitments related to intergenerational equity, explore linkages between regimes, and offer insights from diverse experiences of national future generations' institutions. This volume should be read by lawyers, academics, policy-makers, business and civil society leaders interested in the economy, society, the environment, sustainable development, climate change, and other law, policy and practices impacting all generations.