Seven Podcasts on the History of the Environment and Sustainable Development – by Felix Dodds, SF Fellow and former SF Executive Director

Felix Dodds, SF Fellow, Adjunct Professor at the Water Institute University of North Carolina, and former SF Executive Director, has recently adapted his book ‘Only One Earth, The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development’ into a seven-part audio podcast.

This adaptation will enable a broad readership to understand what was achieved between the first Earth Summit in 1992 and the 20-year review in 2012. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we face twenty years from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit,” in Rio, in particular in the areas of economics and governance and the role of stakeholders. It puts forward a set of recommendations that the international community must address now and in the future. It reminds us of the planetary boundaries we must all live within and what needs to be addressed in the next twenty years for democracy, equity, and fairness to survive. Finally, it proposes, through the survival agenda, a bare minimum of what needs to be done, arguing for a series of absolute minimum policy changes we need to move forward.

You’ll find all episodes here, on Spotify.