The UK Government launched its new strategy for sustainable development, Securing The Future, in conjunction with a Strategic Framework on 7 March, 2005.
The strategy highlights four priority areas for immediate action, shared across the UK, these are:
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Natural Resource Protection and Environmental Enhancement
The Government also recognises that changing behaviour is a cross-cutting theme closely linked to all of these priorities.
The Sustainability Development Unit is situated within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It aims to embed, monitor and report on sustainable development across Whitehall and the UK. Its work includes the development of a UK strategy to set out how government facilitates the delivery of sustainable development. It also sponsors the Sustainable Development Commission, an advisory Non-Departmental Public Body, which was set up to report to the Prime Minister, the First Ministers in Scotland and Wales and the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland.