This book provides a step-by-step, insiders’ guide on how to lobby and engage successfully at the United Nations. It reveals how the United Nations, which plays such a key role…

Governance for Sustainable Development Volume 6: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Addressing Key Climate and Environmental Issues  This is the sixth book that the Friends of Governance…

Witten and edited by Felix Dodds and Chris Spence – Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy  Today more than ever, when the world is beset by environmental, social, healthcare and economic challenges, we…

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing…

This is the fifth book that the Group of Friends of the Governance for Sustainable Development: Volume 5 of Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development – Implementing the 2030 Agenda forSustainable Development: Governance…

By Felix Dodds, Verena Klinger-Dering, Meriem El Hilali, Hyemi Kim, Samuel Victor Makwe, Cristina Popescu, David Banisar, Quinn McKew  The 2030 Agenda represents one of the most important sets of Global Goals that the international community has committed…

My new book Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in A Time of Fear (Routledge) is on advance order on amazon – out July 9th.   I would also like to thank my…

The Friends of Governance for Sustainable Development have continued to host workshops on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2018.  Governance for Sustainable Development Volume 3: Preparing for the Heads of…

Governance for Sustainable Development: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Volume 2 (April 2018) edited by Felix Dodds , David Banisar, Akinremi Bolaji, Yeongmoo Cho, Reinhard Krapp and  Quinn McKew. Available from here.  Achieving sustainable development requires an enabling environment. Governance plays…

This book explores the role that the Young Liberal Green Guard had on UK politics in the 1980s. It aims to inspire future young politicians of whatever political views the…

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…

‘The Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus: Challenges and an Agenda for Action’ edited by Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram,  With a foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales If…

The Post-2015 Agenda is an unprecedented effort that embodies universal aspirations for achieving a better, more just, equitable, peaceful and sustainable future. Representatives from 193 governments and multiple stakeholders, from…

 Rio+20 saw a major rebirth of sustainable development as the major organizing principle for how we should live on this planet. It launched the work on Sustainable Development Goals which…

By Felix Dodds, Jorge Laguna-Celis and Liz Thompson Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit”, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to…

By Felix Dodds and Michael Strauss with Maurice Strong Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the…

“Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A Planet in Peril” has been produced by Stakeholder Forum and edited by Ahmed Djoghlaf and Felix Dodds and includes chapters by: Gusti Muhammad Hatta, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Craig Bennett,Johan Rockstrom, Bob Watson, Achim…

At last the new book is out Climate Change and Energy Insecurity — edited by Andrew Higham, Richard Sherman and Felix Dodds with the Foreword by UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner: chapters by Lord Stern, Linda…

New book out ‘Gatecrashers, controversial organisations, what future for NGOs in the new global governance’ – publisher: Dalloz. Chapter by Felix Dodds entitled: ‘The conditions necessary for the success of an NGO Coalition’.

Edited by Felix Dodds A passionate indictment of the major political parties in Britain today for their failure to face the biggest issues on the British political agenda. These are…

What people have said about the book: ‘for a realistic discussion of the UN programme for sustainable development… look no further. This book shows us where we are, and spells…

“This highly readable collection focuses on the issue of global civil society. This is (rather narrowly) defined as ‘the arena in which people come together to advance their interests they…

“This book analyses new forms of inclusive decision-making processes based on participation of different groups with a stake in sustainable development issues”.Giusy Chiovato Rambaldo “This practical guide explains how multi-stakeholder processes can…

‘An extraordinary review of a complex and evolving dilemma. We should all set aside time to read it thoroughly’NOEL MORRIN, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT DIRECTOR, RMC GROUP PLC ‘The 1992 Earth Summit…

‘How to Lobby has been a great tool for the trade union movement. It has helped our members understand the intergovernmental process and therefore to be much more effective. This…

“The guide will be widely used in the Commonwealth and beyond to promote understanding and engagement in the WSSD process at all levels.” Don McKinnon Commonwealth Secretary General The World Summit on Sustainable…

“A highly significant and relevant publication! The authors describe in admirable clarity a daunting array of contemporary global challenges and offer realistic and achievable responses. Both the public and policy…

May 2007 Downloadable from http://www.stakeholderforum.org Foreword Achim Steiner UNEP Executive Director  Written by  Felix Dodds (SF), Megan Howell (SF), Michael Strauss (Earth Media), Maria Onestini (CEDEA) and UNEP. Introduction: Felix Dodds…

The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental NegotiationsEdited by Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth CorellForeword by Felix Dodds “Without doubt, this book will become the new standard in efforts…