Felix Dodds is my guest on episode 46 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Felix Dodds has been a leading thinker in the area of global governance for thirty years. Now an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina where he is the Principal Investigator for the Belmont Forum funded project Governance of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Sustainable Development. At UNC he co-directed the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conferences on Water-Food-Energy and Climate. He is secretary to the government Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development group in New York. He is also an International Ambassador for the City of Bonn.
He was the UK government candidate to be the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (2019). In 2019 after a three-year campaign he succeeded in securing an annual UN General Assembly resolution on Sustainable Investment.
During the SDG negotiations from 2013 to 2015, he was the advisor to the Ford Foundation grantees on the SDGs and the co-founder of the coalition Communitas that seceded in lobbying for SDG 11 on sustainable cities and communities.
For the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, he facilitated the setting up of the first global network on sustainable development for sub-national governments. He also hosted the first conference on Responsible Tourism. He has sat on a number of advisory boards most recently for the UN Secretary-General the review of the UN Global Compact (2018/2019), for the President UN General Assembly (2016) on sustainable finance, the German government’s global conferences on the Nexus – Water-Food and Energy (2011), Renewable Energy (2005) and Water (2001). He has authored or edited over twenty books the last one was ‘Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear’. He also co-wrote ‘Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals’ with Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch and ‘Only One Earth’ with the father of sustainable development Maurice Strong. His new book ‘Tomorrow’s People: The impact of disruptive Industries on our lives by 2030 will be out in July 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dodds
https://blog.felixdodds.net/
http://www.felixdodds.net/
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00:00 - Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals Participating in Worlds First Historical Precedence
00:33 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Felix Dodds
05:00 - Love your Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals
07:00 - How have you weathered the pandemic
11:40 - Do you feel that you are a Global Citizen?
11:45 - Let people understand what happens during negotiating – SDGs
17:35 - Super Hero Felix Dodds Galaxy thinking Diplomacy
20:15 - Nexus Conferences on Water-Food-Energy and Climate Global Food reform
22:17 - Millennium Development Goals & SDGs
27:20 – Lacking evaluation programs for commitments to see the impacts
30:00 - SDGs, 17 Goals First-ever Global Moonshot
39:45 – Financing the SDGs
42:15 – SDGfund.org – a platform for foundation and funds
43:10 – Global Compact website for industry
46:33 – Exponential Roadmap
48:00 – The launch of the SDGs did we do it right? Building trust
57:10 – Resilient Frontiers workshop the Future after 2030 with Ban Ki-moon
1:00:00 – The burning question, WTF – What is the Future?
1:07:10 – The Book Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals
1:11:55 – PCI Media – great resource humorous look at climate change
1:14:52 – Sustainable takeaways Be hopeful and apply positive thinking
1:16:15 – You can change things, it is possible!
1:21:15 – Understand how politics and the system works
