Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  ROAD MAP TO MISSION 1.5   Joint Statement of the COP28, COP29, and COP30 Presidencies Troika One year ago, on the sidelines of the 2024 World Governments Summit, the COP28, COP29, and COP30 Presidencies launched the first-ever COP Presidencies Troika, with the mandate to guide the Road Map to Mission 1 . 5, inaugurating an entirely new level of collaboration in the multilateral climate regime . This was a key outcome of the historic UAE Consensus - our current blueprint for keeping 1.5°C within reach and achieving global resilience by 2030 . Parties mandated the three Presidencies to focus on boosting ambition and implementation in the next round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) due in 2025, and to support the delivery of the outcome of the first global stocktake .   On the road from Dubai to Baku to Belem, we, the COP28, COP29, and COP30 Presidencies Troika (...

This podcast is based on Chapter Four - Civil Society Discourse -of the book  Stakeholder Democracy: Representative Democracy in a Time of Fear. The podcast   is available here. There have been two different discourses that have developed over the past twenty-five years, civil society in the area of development and stakeholder in the area of sustainable development. This chapter reviews the three major versions of the civil society discourse: associational life, good society, and the public sphere. It finds them limiting the engagement and excludes key stakeholders. Perhaps the discourse works best in opposition against totalitarian regimes of the left and right, but as an organizing principle within democracy, it is found wanting.   The book and podcast also highlight contemporary experiments in participatory democracy, including citizen panels and proposals for a global parliament, and consider the diverse forms of modern democratic governments. In sustainable dev...

This article was originally published on the IISD Knowledge Hub.  Authored by Felix Dodds and Chris Spence. The headlines these days seem to be filled with global catastrophes. From horrifying regional conflicts to cyber espionage, rampant inequality to online disinformation campaigns and societal polarization, the bad news seems never-ending. In light of this, we could be forgiven for dismissing environmental issues as something to be left for the future. In fact, the latest Global Risks Report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) seems, at first sight, to agree with this assessment. In its 2025 report, experts named only one environmental issue, extreme weather, among the top five threats to global stability over the next two years. But look further out and the analysis changes dramatically. When experts assessed global risks over the next decade, the top four global threats were all environmental: extreme weather; biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse; critical changes to Eart...

Based on Chapter 3, "The Emergence of Stakeholder Democracy," by Felix Dodds, this episode delves into the development of stakeholder democracy as a complement to representative democracy and a step toward participatory governance. We discuss how these ideas align with modern political thought and democratic practices. Listen to it here. We also highlight contemporary experiments in participatory democracy, including citizen panels and proposals for a global parliament, and consider the diverse forms of modern democratic governments. In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy and how we are now in a "stakeholder democracy," which is working to strengthen represented democracy in a time of fear. Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the idea of stakeholder democracy has grown, with stakeholders engaged in helping governments and intergovernmental bodies make better decisions and in helpi...

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