Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest writer J an-Gustav Strandenaes, who worked on environment, governance, and sustainability at UNEP, UNDESA, and UN HQ, was the director of an aid/environment NGO, lectured at universities, evaluated projects, advised governments, authored books, and published numerous articles.  Originally published on the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future website here . On Wednesday, the 10th of December, in the last month of 2025, thousands of miles apart, three momentous events took place addressing a common goal: a better future for the world and its peoples. With outcomes dramatically different and ranging in content from substantiating hope in progress and in the future to managing disasters and deploring the state of the world, the conclusions would affect the future in substantive ways. That the events took place on the same day, is historically a coincidence. On that day, the Nobel prizes in Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Economy and Literature were awarded in Stockholm, ...

My new book Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in A Time of Fear (Routledge) is on advance order on amazon - out July 9th.   I would also like to thank my co-authors J an-Gustav Strandenaes, Carolina Duque Chopitea, Minu Hemmati, Susanne Salz, Bernd Lakemeier, Laura Schmitz, and Jana Borkenhagen for their chapters - which are awesome!! While underscoring that my co-authors do not necessarily agree with the chapters written by other people. The book will be out in July for the High Level Political Forum where we will be launching the book. Let me share with you the introduction for the book...and a few reviews out already. “A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.” (Kennedy, 1966) A changing world The ...