Tensions triggered by the financial crisis, climate change and COVID-19 are driving huge global interest in the distribution of costs and benefits across generations -- those alive today and those who will be born in the future. Most people want to do what’s fair and leave a positive legacy for their children and grandchildren. But thinking long-term is difficult in the face of short-term pressures.To help incentivise decision makers to act fairly across generations, the School of International Futures has spent three years developing a framework for the independent, systematic and participatory assessment of policies and investments. In this session, Julie Jenson Bennett, who leads our Intergenerational Fairness Observatory, will share how this lens embeds strategic foresight into the everyday work of designing better policy and making just decisions between people alive today and tomorrow.

June 2, 2021