Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by Dr Radek Stech is Senior Academic, Exeter Law School, and Founder of Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending (Global PSSL) and the ABC Score™. Michael Stanley-Jones is Environmental Policy and Governance Fellow, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), and Senior Advisor on Communications and Networking at Global PSSL. Increased private sector investment is needed to help fill the $4 trillion gap in annual SDG investment in emerging markets and developing economies   Unlocking greater long-term investment in SDGs will require policies that promote the long-term development of capital markets and institutional investors. Global financial markets rely on confidence in the issuance of stocks, bonds and loans to finance sustainable economic growth. The post-issuance phase, which includes the use of proceeds in investment projects, the trading of securities after they are first issued, the management of loans and...

  PRESS RELEASE   Global Renewable Energy Investment Hit USD 807 Billion in 2024 Record investment in renewables, but growth pace slows to 7.3%      Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 217 November 2025  - Global investments in the energy transition reached a new record of USD 2.4 trillion in 2024 – a 20% increase from the average annual levels of 2022/23. About one-third was directed towa...

Belém, 6 November 2025 Excellencies, Excelências, Agradeço ao Presidente Lula, ao Presidente da COP, e ao Governo e ao povo do Brasil pela calorosa hospitalidade   em Belém. Muito obrigado pela vossa liderança e firme compromisso com o multilateralismo – num momento em que o nosso mundo está em jogo. President Lula, you have called this the COP of truth. I could not agree more. The hard truth is that we have failed to ensure we remain below 1.5 degrees. Science now tells us that a temporary overshoot beyond the 1.5 limit – starting at the latest in the early 2030s – is inevitable. We need a paradigm shift to limit this overshoot’s magnitude and duration and quickly drive it down. Even a temporary overshoot will have dramatic consequences. It could push ecosystems past irreversible tipping points, expose billions to unlivable conditions, and amplify threats to peace and security. Every fraction of a degree means more hunger, displacement, and loss – especi...