Most implementations of future generations focus on enshrining the rights and needs of future generations in law, in order to represent those unable to voice their needs. Several countries have tried enshrining obligations to future generations in law. In
Wales, this moral obligation is encoded as a legal duty in the
Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 and in the role of the Future Generations Commissioner. The first commissioner
Sophie Howe modeled the role, proposing a number of new policies designed for future-thinking policy in Wales, including a 2020
Manifesto for the Future. Similarly in
Hungary the office of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations was established in 2008. While in the United Kingdom, an informal cross-party parliamentary group has been established to discuss issues around future generations.
Climate litigation The rights of future generations are increasingly being protected in legal precedents as part of the global trends in
climate litigation. Future generations were the defendant in the critical defendants in a 2018 case
Future Generations v. Ministry of the Environment and Others in Colombia which protected the Amazon rainforest basin for future generations. == In popular culture ==