Thuringia: First federal state with sustainability advisory council in parliament

Already in December, the state parliament, with the votes of the red-red-green coalition, had a decision The state has adopted a resolution on how it intends to implement the 2030 Agenda for Global Sustainable Development and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the ground.

For the first time ever in a federal state, the state parliament in Erfurt is thus also setting up a "Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development". Some federal states have their own sustainability councils or scientific advisory bodies, and many have also formulated their own sustainability strategy. However, there is no advisory council at parliamentary level anywhere.

Read the full article from the 26.01.2017: www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/...