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Defra Secretary of State Hilary Benn gave the keynote speech at the SDUK annual conference on 6 March 2008. He talked about sustainable development achievements and challenges three years after the publication of the UK Sustainable Development Strategy Securing the Future.
>>Regional sustainable development indicators updated Updated regional versions of 46 of the 68 national sustainable development indicators were published on 31 January 2008 to help provide a perspective of sustainable development in each region. The regional indicators include new indicators on environmental equality and on wellbeing.
>>Sustainable development indicators in your pocket 2007 published
The set of 68 indicators covers issues as diverse as health, housing, jobs, crime, education and the environment and shows 'traffic lights' to signal where things are getting better, worse or staying the same. More than half the official measurements show improvement. Find out more. Policy background on the new wellbeing measures, a new common understanding of wellbeing for policy, and information about how wellbeing measures and concepts are being used across government can be found here.
>>Whatever next? SD-scene e-newsletter Apr / May 2008 At the beginning of this month, Prime Minister Gordon Brown addressed UK business leaders on the challenge of climate change. His message wasn’t one of doom and gloom, but focused on its opportunities for business; the opportunity to create jobs, to build businesses, to grow exports, to drive productivity and creativity. This issue’s Whatever Next? explores some of the ways that the Government is working with business and to support business to meet this challenge.
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The latest edition of Sustainable development indicators in your pocket has been published, giving an updated picture of the UK's environmental, social and economic wellbeing. For the first time the booklet includes some measures of personal wellbeing in the population. 
The Government’s blueprint for tackling climate change has been published. The draft Climate Change Bill, the first of its kind in any country, and accompanying strategy, set out a framework for moving the UK to a low-carbon economy. It demonstrates the UK’s leadership as progress continues towards establishing a post-Kyoto global emissions agreement. 
