The Age of Sustainable Development
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Speaker: Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs Chair: Jonathan Leape Recorded on 4 February 2015 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. In this public lecture Professor Sachs will talk about his upcoming book, The Age of Sustainable Development, which explains the central concept for our age, which is both a way of understanding the world and a method for solving global problems - sustainable development. Sustainable development tries to make sense of the interactions of three complex systems: the world economy, the global society, and the Earth's physical environment. It recommends a holistic framework, in which society aims for environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive development, underpinned by good governance. It is a way to understand the world, yet is also a normative or ethical view of the world: a way to define the objectives of a well-functioning society, one that delivers wellbeing for its citizens today and in future generations. This book describes key challenges and solutions pathways for every part of the world to be involved in problem solving, brainstorming, and determining new and creative ways to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth. Jeffrey D. Sachs (@jeffdsachs) is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, best selling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time Magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world's three most influential living economists of the past decade. Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General's MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. He has authored three New York Times best sellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). His most recent book is To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (2013). His upcoming book The Age of Sustainable Development will be published by Columbia University Press on March 10, 2015. Jonathan Leape is the Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE. The International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID.
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Great speech
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58:11 Prof. Sachs in the last 3 minutes of this lecture; "We need candidates that can win without campaign contributions. That’s the bottom line of it…"
Could almost be a campaign ad for Bernie Sanders! #Bernie2016 #feelthebern -
awsome but we don't see the presentation's slides
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Sustainable development goals means false austerity for the world. If they get their way we will all live like peasants . Restriction on food, water, business, travel, families and everything else that we have built and paid for .The UN as far as i'm concerned has no lawful authority so they can fuck off with their subversion of humanity..............love and light
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Like global warming, sustainable development is a very controversial concept in it's own. All of these environmental exaggerations are hammering poverty alleviation efforts in the third world countries. 'Going Green' requires largely expertise, skilled labor to develop necessary 'plants'. For me, the 'Going Green' transition has no space for us in Africa where large part of the billions population is illiterate.
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Inputs well noted. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you ever so much for enabling the slides. Very much obliged. :-)
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Jeffrey D. Sachs... Time to find your email.
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Please enable us to see the slides too during the lecture. This will tremendously enhance the wonderful things you are doing.
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I've taken his class on coursera and can only recommend it. I was impressed by the facts of the problems we're facing and how everything is connected. I now see the big picture.
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