Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

The Water Institute at UNC is happy to share that Styvers Kathuni will be joining the 2025 UNC Water and Health Conference lineup of plenary speakers! This fourth and final plenary, Measuring Climate Resilience in WASH: From Indicators to Impact , scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, will feature Styvers Kathuni, Country Director of the Millenium Water Alliance in Kenya. Over the last 16 years, Styvers has led the implementation of complex high-value programs in Africa including being a Chief of Party on a USAID funded project and leading Swiss and Dutch government funded resilience programs. ...

In    is podcast is from the second chapter of the book  Negotiating the SustainableDevelopment Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world  By  FelixDodds,   Ambassador David Donoghue  and  Jimena Leiva Roesch What are the Sustainable Development Goals? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of 17 goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, that were agreed upon by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the 15-year period from 2015 to 2030. Written by three authors who have been engaged in the development of the SDGs from the beginning, this book offers an insider view of the process and a unique entry into what will be seen as one of the most significant negotiations and global policy agendas of the twenty-first century.  What does the book address? The book reviews how the SDGs were developed, what happened in key meetings and how this transformational agenda, which took more th...