Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Comic book from Comics Uniting Nations and founding partner UNICEF  takes the action to the North Pole, and brings the message home to kids As COP 24 finishes a new hero emerged today to help lead the global battle against the potentially catastrophic climate menace. Actually, a rather old hero. Santa Claus – also known as Father Christmas, Père Noël and St. Nicholas – released a deeply personal account of his struggle to recognize, understand and take action against the impacts of rising temperatures and extreme weather events that are threatening the very foundations of his fabled workshop and village. The comic, titled Santa's Green Christmas - Father Christmas Battles Climate Change, the newest release from Comics Uniting Nations, reveals how Mr. Claus first became aware of shifting temperatures when Dancer, the lead member of his reindeer team, nearly crashed through the previously solid Arctic ice-cap during a practice landing. “Fortunately, she was soon on the...

Santa Claus Takes on Climate Change will you join  him? Just as the Paris Climate Conference is about to start we are launching an I ndiegago campaign. The objective is to help the next generation understand climate change. We will create a free downloable comic as part of the Comics Uniting Nations initiative .  Comics Uniting Nations is a monumental partnership between a group of innovative nonprofits, working in close coordination with the United Nations Millennium Campaign and the United Nations Post-2015 Development Planning Team to make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) accessible to the citizens of the world through comics. One of the SDGs is on climate change. This Indiegogo project is supporting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in particular this comic is focused on Santa Claus taking on Climate Change. It is based on a story that was written for the BBC in 2009  The first Comics Uniting Nations Comic ‘Chakra the Inv...

As Father Christmas starts his travels around the world to deliver his presents I managed to hack the list which you may find interesting Nice: The co-chairs of the SDG OWG Ambassador Mr. Macharia Kamau Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya and Mr. Csaba Kőrösi Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of Hungary for achieving shepherding governments and stakeholders to an agreed set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Naughty:   Save the Children Fund Management for awarding its global legacy Award – to a former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nice: while over 200 of Save the Children Funds own staff joined 100,000s of people condemning the decision even as further questions arose over his role in accepting fictitious intelligence promoted by the Bush-Cheney administration to justify the invasion of Iraq. Naughty: One of our favorite NGOs Greenpeace had some of their campaigners at the climate conference in Peru hoping to make a g...

VIEWPOINT Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss Environmentalists Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss had this published in an earlier form in the BBC's Green Room (2009). They pass on from a seasonal contributor an important message: "Though he usually prefers to act anonymously, he has been rumored to be active in many different countries under various personae that include Father Christmas, Pere Noel, and San Nicolas." Dear children, As many of you know this time of year is very busy for me. The elves are also really busy, making the Obama dolls (although they appear to be less popular than last year), the train sets, and the computer games. But before I pack up the sleigh and set off on this year's big ride, I wanted to share with you an update on how things are going. I wanted to share with you some worries I have, because here at the North Pole it has been a difficult year. Dancer hurt a leg earlier this year and almost had to be replaced in thi...