Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

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  p ublished on  Jun 20, 2025 at 04:00  - Modified an hour ago To share  : link June 20, 2025 Dear friends, In my fourth letter to the international community, the Brazilian Presidency of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reaffirms its commitment to driving forward our Global Action against climate change with an appeal not only to the Parties to the UNFCCC, but also to all those willing to act decisively in the face of the climate emergency, through an ambitious and integrated Action Agenda at COP30. In May 2024, when historic floods devastated Rio Grande do Sul, the waters made the boundaries between streets and rivers disappear, but not the determination of the people  . People responded collectively, in a chain of collective efforts that defied the chaos brought by the storm. Men, women, young people, civil servants from all levels of government, entrepreneurs — the...

Below is the overview and they are still negotiating with the hotels so they may not be up by the end of the month go to COP30 website   Total accommodation Total will be: 29 thousand rooms – 55 thousand beds – they are expecting many people to share rooms Hotel Chains 7900 rooms 14 300 beds   Short term rent 16.5 places with 25 thousand beds Cruise ships 4 000 rooms 6000 beds Official platform open end of June    Wlll have short term 2500 -6000 end  of June Two cruise ships 4000 rooms end of June Others to come 

This is Episode 5 of our series based on  From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable  Future by  Felix Dodds ,  Jorge Laguna-Celis , and  Liz Thompson.  Over five episodes, we’re exploring the ideas, negotiations, and ripple effects that shaped the landmark 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.  Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the f...

By Jamie Cummings, Associate, Stakeholder Forum, 11 June 2025 first published on Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future pgae here . The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 (GP2025) in Geneva has concluded on the eve of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body meetings (SBs) for climate in Bonn. Participants of both sessions are entering the SBs with a renewed sense of urgency and a clear roadmap for breaking down the silos that have long separated climate action from disaster risk reduction. Over five intensive days at GP2025 (June 2-6), representatives from across the globe gathered to bridge the critical gap between the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Mr. Anderson Banda, Director of SHOC at the Southern African Development Community, delivered a memorable line at the conference, based on Professor Virginia Murray’s original work: “Disasters are not natural. They are products of the decisions we make. And better decisions ar...

This is Episode 4 of our series based on  From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable  Future by  Felix Dodds ,  Jorge Laguna-Celis , and  Liz Thompson.  Over five episodes, we’re exploring the ideas, negotiations, and ripple effects that shaped the landmark 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.  Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the f...