Felix Dodds

Felix Dodds is the Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. He has been active at the UN since 1990 attending the World Summits of Rio , Habitat II, Rio+5, Beijing+5, Copenhagen+5, World Summit on . He has also been to all the UN Commissions for Sustainable Development and many UNEP Governing Councils.

He has just chaired the 64th UN DPI NGO Conference on Sustainable Societies Responsive Citizens feeding into Rio +20 – over 1500 stakeholders agreed a declaration.

He has set up three global NGO coalitions for UN Conferences, Summits and Commissions these are the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (1993), the UN Habitat II (1995) the WHO Health and Environment Conference (1999). He co- chaired the NGO Coalition at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development from 1997 to 2001. He introduced Stakeholder Dialogues in 1996 through the UN General Assembly in November 1996 for Rio+5 and helped run some of the most successful ones at Bonn Water (2001) and Bonn Energy (2004).

He is at present on the advisory boards for:  Water, Energy and Food Nexus Bonn 2011  Planet under Pressure (2012)  Eye on the Earth Summit (2012)  The Collaborative Institute for Climate Oceans and Security,

From 1985-1987 he was the chair of the UK Liberal Parties youth wing. He is considered to have been one of the leading contributors to greening the party. He also successfully led the rebellion against the party changing its policy on nuclear deterrent (1986).

From 1997-2001 he co-chaired the UN Commission on Sustainable Development NGO Steering Committee and has been a part of the Green Globe Task Force that advised the UK Foreign Minister on sustainable development issues from 1996-2005

He has written or edited the following books:  Only One Planet (April 2012);  Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity (2011);  Climate Change and Energy Insecurity (2009);  Negotiating and Implementing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (2007);  Human and Environmental Security - An Agenda for Change (2005);  How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings Mine is a Cafe Latte (2004);  A New Deal (2000);  The Way Forward - Beyond Agenda 21 (1997);  Into the Twenty First Century An Agenda for Political realignment (1988).

He is also a regular contributor to the BBC web site and enjoys blogging from Film Festivals.

What some people have said about him:

“Felix Dodds is the Milo Minderbender of the Stakeholder world”

ALEX KIRBY (BBC)

“Stakeholder Forum is a little-known organization that has nevertheless been the source of many of the most hopeful initiatives at the summit (World Summit on Sustainable Development)'

GEOFFREY LEAN, Independent on Sunday

"Felix is a genius for convincing the most skeptical legislator of the eminent reasonableness of the sustainable development case."

JOHN GUMMER MP former UK Secretary of State for the Environment

Comments about the book Climate Change and Energy Insecurity edited with Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman

“'We must treat climate as a security issue, the most important threat to global security we will ever face. Energy is at the heart of this transition. Climate security and energy security are two sides of the same coin: one cannot be achieved without the other. This book is an important contribution to exploring this vital part of the environmental security agenda."

MAURICE STRONG the Secretary General of the Rio and Stockholm Earth Summits

“Climate and energy are two of the most urgent and formidable issues of our times. This seminal text comprehensively details our challenges and explains the ways in which they are inextricably linked to human rights and environmental stewardship.”

P. SIMRAN SETHI, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas and Founding Writer/ Co-Host of Sundance Channel's environmental programming "The Green"

Comments about his new book - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity – A Planet in Peril edited with Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

"Many people around the world remain totally unaware that the Earth is losing its incredible array of plant and animal life at an unprecedented and alarming rate.

The dangers to our global biodiversity and the impacts this will have on human society are clearly spelled out in this book which stresses that if we continue with business as usual, we will soon reach a tipping point, causing irreparable and irreversible damage to the major ecosystems that support life on our planet. "

ED NORTON actor and Ambassador for the Convention on Biological Diversity