Felix Dodds
Felix Dodds is an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina. He is an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute in Boston, and he is the City of Bonn’s International Ambassador. He co-authored his recent book: “ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES IN DIPLOMACY: PROFILES IN COURAGE” which highlights several outstanding heroes in the environmental area. Following are the chapter titles: a) Luc Hoffmann, Geoffrey Matthews & Eskandar Firouz: Escaping a Cold War Quagmire: The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands; b) Sidney Holt: The Long-Haul Hero Who Saved the Great Whales: The International Whaling Commission; c) Mostafa Tolba: The Egyptian King: The Montreal Protocol; d) Franz Perrez: Putting the ‘Basel’ Back into the Basel Convention; e) Raúl A. Estrada-Oyuela: Hero of Kyoto: The Kyoto Protocol; f) Barack Obama: The Missing Hero? The Copenhagen Climate Summit; g) Christiana Figueres: The Can-Do Advocate: The Paris Agreement on Climate Change; h) Maurice Strong – From Poverty to UN Under-Secretary General and Father of Sustainable Development – The Rio Earth Summit; i) Maria Luiza Viotti: A Believer in Multilateralism and the Power of Collective Ideas: The Rio+20 Conference; j) Paula Caballero: Building a Blueprint for a Better Future: The Sustainable Development Goals.
