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Environmental Lobbying at the United Nations by Felix Dodds and Chris Spence  Use the code above at Routledge.com to get a 20% dsiscoun t until the end of  June this year . This book provides a s tep-by-step insider’s guide to lobbying and engaging successfully at the United Nations. It reveals how the United Nations, which plays such a key role on issues from climate change to pollution of our air, land and sea, really works. In a world of rapid climate change, a flood of forever chemicals and plastic pollution, and the extinction of so much wildlife around the world, we need the convening power of the United Nations now more than ever. What’s more, we need individuals and organisations dedicated to making sure the United Nations has the most positive impact it can.  And yet, global diplomacy can be dauntingly challenging and complex. Drawing on the authors' combined 60 years of professional experience with the United Nations system, this book provides essential ...

  A Series of Governance Papers by Stakeholder Forum, Focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Triple Planetary Crisis Paper 9: Lessons Learned from the BRS Conventions Synergies Process, Which Could be Applied to the UNEP-Administered and Extended to Selected Other Biodiversity Conventions   By Craig Boljkovac [i] , Hugo-Maria Schally [ii] , and Felix Dodds [iii] This was first published in March 2026. The opinions set forth below are the author's own. Introduction The UN80 process is a major United Nations reform effort launched in 2025 to modernise the organisation for its 80th anniversary, focusing on making it more efficient, agile, and effective by streamlining structures, reducing bureaucracy, and better aligning programs with current global challenges like climate change, conflict, and technological shifts. UN80 has three key workstreams with Member States making final decisions on proposals. The three workstreams are: Improving In...

Guest blog by John (E) Scanlon AO, Environment, nature, sustainability | Advocacy, law, governance, policy, strategy. Originally published here . In 2024 the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) at the Twelfth Session of the Conference of the Parties (CoP12) adopted a resolution[1] on crimes that affect the environment (CAE). It followed a series of earlier UN resolutions on the topic. Amongst other things, the UNTOC Resolution on CAE established an open-ended intergovernmental expert group (IEG) on CAE falling withing the scope of the UNTOC. Its mandate included taking stock of how the UNTOC is being applied to address CAE, identifying gaps in the international legal framework to prevent and combat CAE, and how to respond to those gaps, including the “possibility, feasibility and merits” of any additional protocol to the Convention.  The IEG first officially met from 30 June to 2 July 2025 and it held its second , and final, meeting from 24 to 26 Fe...