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Tomorrow's people and new technology, with Felix Dodds
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Felix Dodds is my guest on Episode 147 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Felix Dodds is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He was the co-director of the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conference on Water, Food, Energy, and Climate. In 2019 he was a candidate for the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). His new book ‘Tomorrow’s People: The impact of disruptive Industries on our lives by 2030 will be out in Oct. 2021. Carolina Duque Chopitea Ranger Ruffins. Felix was a member of an informal expert group for the President of the UN General Assemblies Brookings Report: ‘Links in the Chain of Sustainable Finance: Accelerating Private Investments for the SDGs, including Climate Action’ (2016). He has written or edited over 20 books; his last book was Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear. His other books have included the Vienna Café Trilogy, which chronicles sustainable development at the international level. The first Only One Earth he cowrote with the father of Sustainable Development Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss, the second From Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda with Jorge Laguna Celis and Ambassador Liz Thompson and the last one Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals with Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch. Felix was the Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992 to 2012. He played a significant role in promoting multi-stakeholder dialogues at the United Nations and proposed to the UN General Assembly the introduction of stakeholder dialogue sessions at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. In 2011, Felix was listed as one of 25 environmentalists ahead of his time. Also, in 2011 he chaired the United Nations DPI 64th NGO conference ‘Sustainable Societies Responsive Citizens’, which put forward the first set of indicative Sustainable Development Goals. From 1997 to 2001 he co-chaired the UN Commission on Sustainable Development NGO Steering Committee. His next book Environmental Heroes in Diplomacy: Profiles in courage June 2022
http://www.felixdodds.net/
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Manage episode 308457749 series 2775101
Felix Dodds is my guest on Episode 147 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Felix Dodds is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He was the co-director of the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conference on Water, Food, Energy, and Climate. In 2019 he was a candidate for the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). His new book ‘Tomorrow’s People: The impact of disruptive Industries on our lives by 2030 will be out in Oct. 2021. Carolina Duque Chopitea Ranger Ruffins. Felix was a member of an informal expert group for the President of the UN General Assemblies Brookings Report: ‘Links in the Chain of Sustainable Finance: Accelerating Private Investments for the SDGs, including Climate Action’ (2016). He has written or edited over 20 books; his last book was Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear. His other books have included the Vienna Café Trilogy, which chronicles sustainable development at the international level. The first Only One Earth he cowrote with the father of Sustainable Development Maurice Strong and Michael Strauss, the second From Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda with Jorge Laguna Celis and Ambassador Liz Thompson and the last one Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals with Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch. Felix was the Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992 to 2012. He played a significant role in promoting multi-stakeholder dialogues at the United Nations and proposed to the UN General Assembly the introduction of stakeholder dialogue sessions at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. In 2011, Felix was listed as one of 25 environmentalists ahead of his time. Also, in 2011 he chaired the United Nations DPI 64th NGO conference ‘Sustainable Societies Responsive Citizens’, which put forward the first set of indicative Sustainable Development Goals. From 1997 to 2001 he co-chaired the UN Commission on Sustainable Development NGO Steering Committee. His next book Environmental Heroes in Diplomacy: Profiles in courage June 2022
http://www.felixdodds.net/
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