Can we attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Can good governance help?

Professor M. James C. Crabbe is a Supernumerary Fellow and former Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University. A Fellow and former Vice-President and Council Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST), much of his recent research is in the maritime environment and conservation area, particularly coral reefs and climate change. He is Chair of the IMarEST Guild of Benevolence. He is currently Senior Advisor to the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), Special Visiting Professor at Shanxi University, Honorary Professor at both Changchun University of Science & Technology and at Wuhan Business University, China. He has been a Senior Research Associate in the Zoology Department at Oxford University.  He works with IUCN, and in 2022 won their coral Grand Prize Award. In 2021 he was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Co-Founder, Board Member and Fellow of the US National Academy of Technology. In 2022 he was invited to attend and co-host a session on Marine Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2022 he was awarded the Green Development and Sustainability Award from the International Engineering and Technology Institute; their highest award in ecology. His research has resulted in 330 research publications in refereed journals and books, plus 14 items of commercial molecular modelling software produced by Oxford University Press, and numerous other awards.