Sustainable Development Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world

Sustainable Development Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world

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 for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030. Written by three authors who have been engaged in the development of the SDGs from the beginning,…

Governance for Sustainable Development

Governance for Sustainable Development

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 all sectors, have actively participated in its creation. This ambitious and unique exercise represents a paradigm shift in development policy. It materializes years of dialogue…

Only One Earth -The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

Only One Earth -The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

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 Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t….

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity

“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 Steiner, Jan McAlpine and Monique Barbut. The book provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and…

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity

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 Adams, Nnimmo Bassey, Ambassador Stuart, Beck, Craig Bennett, Barbara J. Bramble, Gidon, Bromberg, European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas, Director General UN Foor and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf,…