Tomorrow's people and new technology, with Felix Dodds
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2021-12-02

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 and New Technology: Changing How We Live Our Lives released Oct. 2021 with co-authors Carolina Duque Chopitea, and 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 will be out June 2022.

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00:00 - Felix Dodds is my guest on Episode 147 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley
00:34 - Introduction
02:13 - New book - Tomorrow’s people and New Technology
03:51 - Felix Dodds on Inside Ideas Ep 46: https://youtu.be/Sxzl9dNTgJg
04:20 - How have you weathered this time?
06:20 - COP26 in Glasgow
09:14 - Insights about COP
15:07 - 4 points on COP26 
19:55 - SDGfunders.org - Funding for the SDGs
21:22 - We need accountability for 130 Trillion
22:40 - ESG reporting
23:23 - About the future tweets
25:08 - Food crises coming
28:08 - The book Tomorrow’s people and New Technology - Who is it for?
32:00 - Illustrated books 
33:38 - Books often starting with history lessons 
37:25 - Third or fourth Industrial revolution?
39:49 - Using popular culture to describe
40:28 - Describing 2030, how quick the future will come
41:30 - The SDGs by 2030 
42:00 - 6 transformations to reach the SDGs
43:54 - Future solutions
48:05 - Resilience Frontiers, Dr. Youssef Nassef, Ep.109:  https://youtu.be/cRGQnpeDf8g
49:38 - How can we imagine and feel the future so we can get there?
52:29 - Water
53:54 - The jobs of the future
57:09 - Don’t make the future look scary
59:28 - New economies?
1:02:50 - Ecological footprint 
1:03:35 - Circular economy for plastic? 
1:04:50 - Next book in June - Environmental Heroes in Diplomacy: Profiles in courage 
1:08:50 - Collecting comics
1:12:20 - Too many dystopian futures
1:13:45 - Space travel without polluting
1:18:15 - What does a world that works for everyone look like for you?
1:18:53 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:19:29 - What should young innovators think about?
1:20:12 - What I wish I knew from the start