Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Originally published in Inter Press Service News here.   Terry Waghorn of Katerva interviewed Felix Dodds and Chris Tomkins on the Blue Economy. ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, Nov 21 2018 (IPS)  - I recently connected with Felix Dodds and a colleague of his Chris Tomkins - a Blue Economy Consultant about the development around how the Blue Economy prior to the Kenya Government’s  international conference (26-28 November) on the subject . Felix is a global sustainable development leader who has worked on sustainable development for more than two decades observing and participating in international development meetings, including the negotiations on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which the Blue Economy is part of and asked for his take on why and how the business and finance community should get behind them. Terry Waghorn:   We are now three years into implementing the Sustainable Development Goals one of which deals with the Oceans. For many people...

Terry Waghorn from Katerva interviewed me for Forbes. Terry Waghorn : These new Global Goals for Sustainable Development will replace the Millennium Development Goals at the beginning of 2016 – what is the difference between the Global Goals and the Millennium Development Goals and why should we care? Felix Dodds : The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a result of the Millennium Declaration Heads of State agreed to in 2000. The MDGs were developed afterward by experts and focused action in eight areas only for developing countries. By 2011, it was clearer that in the future there couldn’t be any development which was not sustainable development and that ALL countries needed to redress their development to keep it within what we were now calling planetary boundaries. The approach by economists to the environment has been to treat it as a free resource until it was polluted or used up. For example, the Living Planet Index shows a decline of 52 percent in biodiversity in...