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Just published by the IPS – the Inter Press Service News Agency – Stakeholder Forum Fellow Felix Dodds and co-author Chris Spence consider the future of UN Climate Meetings after the June 2026 UN Climate Meetings in Bonn. With progress…
You can now read SF’s most recent governance paper, ‘Lessons Learned from the BRS Conventions Synergies Process, Which Could Be Applied to the UNEP-Administered and Extended to Selected Other Biodiversity Conventions,’ by Craig Boljkovac, Hugo-Maria Schally, and Felix Dodds. The…
SF’s newest opinion piece, ‘Trusting in Hope or Managing Disaster: UNEA 7, Human Rights and the Nobel Prizes’ by Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Senior Advisor to Stakeholder Forum, is now available. With an introduction by Stakeholder Forum Director Irena Zubcevic, Mr. Strandenaes…
You can now read SF’s most recent governance paper, ‘Financing the Triple Planetary Crisis of Chemicals and Waste, Biodiversity and Climate Change,’ by Craig Boljkovac, Hugo-Maria Schally, Stacy Azores, Felix Dodds, Chris Spence, and Idil Boran. The UN’s reform effort,…
You can now read SF’s most recent governance paper, ‘Breaking the Deadlock – Ideas for Advancing a Global Treaty on Plastics Pollution,’ by Craig Boljkovac. After more than seven decades of almost unabated plastic production and use—particularly of single-use plastics—the…
You can now read SF’s most recent blog, ‘Just Transitions: Multiple Challenges, Multiple Options,’ by David O’Connor and Rene Marker-Katz. The current moment in climate politics seems an inauspicious one, where the US government is actively rolling back climate policies…
Just published by the IPS – the Inter Press Service News Agency – Stakeholder Forum Fellow Felix Dodds and co-author Chris Spence consider the future of the SDGs ten years after their adoption by the world community and in a…
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.…
Inaction when it comes to the fight back against damaging climate change is not an option, the President of the UN General Assembly told a major energy conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Tijani Muhammad-Bande was addressing the International Organization for…
Earlier this week the United Nations issued the “2020 World Economic Situations and Prospects report,” a high-level annual report. It is chock full of economic information collected by just about every United Nations Economic analysis body. It begins by highlighting…