Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  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...

As we start to embrace the new decade – is this the roaring 20’s? The state of the world is not what we would have hoped for in 2015 when Heads of State agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.    This seems to have been a consistent trend in global sustainable development affairs. Something  that we  pointed out in what is called the ‘Vienna Café Trilogy’. The first book of that Trilogy – ' Only One Earth'  was written with the father of sustainable development Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss looked at the development of policy at the global level from the mid-1960s to 2012. What it showed was that after each advancement there was a negative reaction caused by a number of global events. After Stockholm 1972   (the first UN Conference on the environment)  we saw the impact of the Yom Kippur War – where oil prices rose significantly and focus moved away from environmental issues. Around the time of th...