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Felix Dodds
Felix Dodds, born Michael Nicholas Dodds, is a British author, futurist, and activist.
He stood in Mid Derbyshire for the Liberal Democrats in the 2019 General Election. He has been instrumental in developing new modes of stakeholder engagement with the United Nations, particularly within the field of sustainable development.
His latest book is Tomorrow's People and New Technology: Changing How We Live Our Lives. Dodds was the Executive Director of the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992–2012. He is the author of How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings: Mine is a Café Latte, written with co-author Michael Strauss.
Dodds has written a trilogy of books known as the Vienna Cafe Trilogy, which covers the history of sustainable development at the global level. He wrote the third book in the series, Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals (2017), with Ambassador Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch. The other two are the 2014 From Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda written by Jorge Laguna Celis and Liz Thompson, and the 2012 Only One Earth – The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development written by Michael Strauss and Maurice Strong. The books look at the Rio+20 process and outcomes and the last forty years and the challenges for the future. His previous books include the Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus edited with Jamie Bartram, which takes up the themes of three of his other books on human and environmental security. These are Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity edited with Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, UN Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary. This is a companion book to Climate Change and Energy Insecurity, an edited volume with Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman, and Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change. The books argue that the new paradigm facing the world is the interface between environmental, human, and economic security considerations. Dodds believes this is due to the failure of developed countries to deliver on promises made during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg.
In 2010, Green Eco Services listed him as one of the twenty-five environmentalists ahead of their time.
Dodds was born in Allestree in Derby. Dodds went on to study physics at the University of Surrey, where he was active in student politics. He contributed much of his time to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Surrey Students Union, for which he was Deputy President between 1977 and 1978. After university, Dodds went on to teach mathematics and physics, first at the Khartoum International Community School, and then in London at the Harlington Community School.
Early in his career, Dodds was active in UK politics and involved with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Anti-Nazi League. Dodds also engaged with environmental issues such as acid rain, nuclear power and ozone depletion. He held positions in the Liberal Party between 1983 and 1987 and became chairperson of the party's "young wing," the National League of Young Liberals (NLYL), in 1985.
Dodds was an instigator in the rebellion against the SDP-Liberal Alliance leadership of David Steel and David Owen over the issue of an independent nuclear deterrence. The rebel alliance produced the publication Across the Divide: Liberal Values on Defence and Disarmament, which outlined the Liberal Party's historic opposition to the UK having an independent nuclear deterrent. This resulted in a defeat to the leadership in 1986, by twenty-three votes at the Liberal Party Conference defence debate in Eastbourne.
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Felix Dodds
Felix Dodds, born Michael Nicholas Dodds, is a British author, futurist, and activist.
He stood in Mid Derbyshire for the Liberal Democrats in the 2019 General Election. He has been instrumental in developing new modes of stakeholder engagement with the United Nations, particularly within the field of sustainable development.
His latest book is Tomorrow's People and New Technology: Changing How We Live Our Lives. Dodds was the Executive Director of the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992–2012. He is the author of How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings: Mine is a Café Latte, written with co-author Michael Strauss.
Dodds has written a trilogy of books known as the Vienna Cafe Trilogy, which covers the history of sustainable development at the global level. He wrote the third book in the series, Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals (2017), with Ambassador Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch. The other two are the 2014 From Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda written by Jorge Laguna Celis and Liz Thompson, and the 2012 Only One Earth – The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development written by Michael Strauss and Maurice Strong. The books look at the Rio+20 process and outcomes and the last forty years and the challenges for the future. His previous books include the Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus edited with Jamie Bartram, which takes up the themes of three of his other books on human and environmental security. These are Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity edited with Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, UN Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary. This is a companion book to Climate Change and Energy Insecurity, an edited volume with Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman, and Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change. The books argue that the new paradigm facing the world is the interface between environmental, human, and economic security considerations. Dodds believes this is due to the failure of developed countries to deliver on promises made during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg.
In 2010, Green Eco Services listed him as one of the twenty-five environmentalists ahead of their time.
Dodds was born in Allestree in Derby. Dodds went on to study physics at the University of Surrey, where he was active in student politics. He contributed much of his time to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Surrey Students Union, for which he was Deputy President between 1977 and 1978. After university, Dodds went on to teach mathematics and physics, first at the Khartoum International Community School, and then in London at the Harlington Community School.
Early in his career, Dodds was active in UK politics and involved with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Anti-Nazi League. Dodds also engaged with environmental issues such as acid rain, nuclear power and ozone depletion. He held positions in the Liberal Party between 1983 and 1987 and became chairperson of the party's "young wing," the National League of Young Liberals (NLYL), in 1985.
Dodds was an instigator in the rebellion against the SDP-Liberal Alliance leadership of David Steel and David Owen over the issue of an independent nuclear deterrence. The rebel alliance produced the publication Across the Divide: Liberal Values on Defence and Disarmament, which outlined the Liberal Party's historic opposition to the UK having an independent nuclear deterrent. This resulted in a defeat to the leadership in 1986, by twenty-three votes at the Liberal Party Conference defence debate in Eastbourne.