Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

By Jamie Cummings, Associate, Stakeholder Forum, 11 June 2025 first published on Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future pgae here . The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 (GP2025) in Geneva has concluded on the eve of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body meetings (SBs) for climate in Bonn. Participants of both sessions are entering the SBs with a renewed sense of urgency and a clear roadmap for breaking down the silos that have long separated climate action from disaster risk reduction. Over five intensive days at GP2025 (June 2-6), representatives from across the globe gathered to bridge the critical gap between the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Mr. Anderson Banda, Director of SHOC at the Southern African Development Community, delivered a memorable line at the conference, based on Professor Virginia Murray’s original work: “Disasters are not natural. They are products of the decisions we make. And better decisions ar...

NEW YORK — Today, the Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development announced the release of Volume 7: Interlinking Major Sustainable Development Events to Embrace Policy Coherence and Implementation of the 2030 Agenda.   Felix Dodds , Secretary of the Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development and Director of Research and Development of Multilateral Policies and International Affairs at the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainable Solutions Service (RMWSSS) at Arizona State University, and a Fellow at Stakeholder Forum, coordinated the launch of the publication through his publishing company New World Frontiers. “We are excited to announce the seventh volume of this series of books produced by the Friends group,” said Dodds. “The book is an invaluable resource that includes chapters written by nearly a dozen experts working within the UN system on a range of issues whose perspectives are crucial for anyone working to advance sustainable development at the global level.” ...

  Preparations for the major events in 2023 offer the chance to create an interlinked agenda that builds through the year. This workshop would be a day long and would bring together the thinking around the 2023 UN Water Conference, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Mid-Term Review, the Financing for Development Heads of State Round Tables, the Food System Summit Stock-Take, the Heads of State 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (including the SDGs) Summit and the Global Stocktaking that will lead to COP28. Session 1:  9:00-9:15 Introduction Moderator: Charles Nouhan  – Chair of Stakeholder Forum Video links are on the name of the person. Dr. M. K. Dorsey  – The Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service (RMWSSS) Chair (The Walton Chair) with a concurrent appointment as Professor of Practice in the College of Global Futures (CGF ),  Arizona State University.  Marion Barthelemy  – Director, Office of Intergovernmental Supp...