Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

This is the third podcast is from the book   Negotiating the SustainableDevelopment Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world  By  FelixDodds,   Ambassador David Donoghue  and  Jimena Leiva Roesch  "The Big Year: The Preparatory Process".  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 than three years to neg...

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...

How often have you tried to explain what it is you do at the UN only to find friends and families eyes gloss over? Do they really understand how important bracketing text is or a comma here or a full stop there? Or perhaps you have friends who want to follow you into intergovernmental negotiations and experience the wonders of the Vienna Cafe!! Well, now they can!! Great presents for anyone interested in sustainable development. Without understanding the history its difficult to understand the present or plan for the future. The Vienna Cafe trilogy is their opportunity to relive some of your wonderful moments. Not to be confused with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, which is in five parts, the Vienna Cafe trilogy isn't in another galaxy just a cafe in the basement of the UN or other intergovernmental venues. The latest volume of the trilogy is N egotiating the Sustainable Development Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world by Felix Dodds, Amb...

Book launch of  Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world by Felix Dodds, Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch at the UN Bookshop in New York was  live streamed hon Friday 14th July . the video is available to watch below. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-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. The book reviews how the SDGs were developed, what happened in key meetings and how this transformational agenda, which took more than three years to negotiate, cam...

If you are new to the wonderful world of international negotiations on sustainable development or want to understand how it all developed from its early days in the 1960s, to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 then this is the trilogy for you. Like the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy inFive Parts – this trilogy may have future books but for now this is your guide to what was agreed when it was agreed, why it was agreed and why it was or was not implemented. These books I wrote with a set of different authors who brought their own perspectives to the book and with mine we hopefully gave you some answers. The first book of the Vienna Cafe Trilogy is “Only One Earth: The LongRoad via Rio to Sustainable Development” written with Maurice Strong the father of sustainable development and Michael Strauss a well-known journalist and press adviser. The book covers the forty years from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment...

In this exclusive blog post , Routledge author Felix Dodds, discusses the development of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a forthcoming book that will tell the complete story. On September 25, Heads of State met in New York and adopted the ‘Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development' (UN, 2015). This had been a long process that started in Solo, Indonesia, in July 2011 when the governments of Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and UAE suggested that instead of replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with another set of development goals that would deal with impacts of policies, that a set of ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’ should complement the MDGs. These SDGs should challenge the root causes and not the symptoms that they should be – not only for developing countries, but for all countries. They also shouldn’t just address development, but also sustainable development. Stakeholders had the first attempt at ident...