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Jonathan Reeves

Former Senior researcher, post-2015 agenda

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Expertise

Sustainable development governance and assessment; particular experience in sustainable food and energy systems and interactions between climate change, natural resource management and food and nutrition security

Before IIED
  • Natural Resources Officer and, prior to that, Programme Officer (Global Bioenergy Partnership Secretariat) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Policy adviser at the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Education

Ph.D. in theoretical physics (Imperial College, London) and M.Phys. in physics (Oxford)

Current work

Engaging with the post-2015 development agenda/SDG processes through the Independent Research Forum (IRF2015) and the LDC Independent Expert Group

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Languages: English, English (mother tongue), Spanish (fluent), French (advanced), Italian and Portuguese (intermediate)

Recent publications

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Habilitación bosques para anotar metas de desarrollo sostenible, documento final taller internacional de Lima

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Impact of climate change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible?

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Integrated approaches to SDG implementation and indicators: focus on forests

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Enabling forests to score sustainable development goals- the Lima international workshop outcome document

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SD goals from a forest perspective: Transformative, universal and integrated?

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Sustainable Development Goals: a forest module for a transformative agenda

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Jonathan Reeves's blog posts

Deforestation in Bhutan: forests are a prime example of how an integrated approach to policymaking can prevent benefits in one area undermining wellbeing elsewhere (Photo: Curt Carnemark/World Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Integration: will the UN Forum on Forests lead the way?

Blog, May 2015
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't

Blog, Feb 2015
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)

Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?

Blog, Dec 2014
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