Introducing Sustainable Development
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
The Moral Basis for Business Activity

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The Moral Basis for Business Activity

This chapter looks at different dimensions of corporate social responsibility and stresses that the ethical responsibility of business must be a core component of business education. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.…

The Moral Basis for Business Activity
Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing projects and retained earnings, bank borrowings against the corporate balance sheet, or project finance specifically loaned against the capacity of that project. The chapter also details the various analyses and assessments done by companies technical, social, governmental, and financial. Sir Mark Moody Stuart stresses that…

How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus
Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire

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Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire

While acknowledging that there were a variety of factors that led to the outbreak and conduct of Cote d’Ivoire’s two civil wars, this chapter specifically considers how rebels exploited cacao to fund these wars. It reviews the brief history of cacao cultivation to provide some context for its unmatched role in Cote d’Ivoire’s economy, and examines how the dynamics of risk and opportunity presented by the nation’s diamond and cacao sectors have shifted over time.

Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire
Getting to Know the SDGs
Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus

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Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus

In this chapter, William Vendley finds the points of consensus between religious traditions, and shows how religious communities are well-positioned in terms of both spirituality and infrastructure to play a role in sustainable development. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or…

Virtue Ethics as a Multi-Religious Consensus
Stagnant and divided
Getting to Know the SDGs

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Getting to Know the SDGs

An introduction to the course Transforming Our World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Jeffrey Sachs profiles the history of the sustainable development agenda, from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to the creation and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The chapter provides a brief overview of what each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are and how to achieve their associated 169 targets. This…

Getting to Know the SDGs
Introduction and History of Public Health
Stagnant and divided

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Stagnant and divided

In this first session of The Turn, Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger set the stage for their discussion and seek to answer the question "What happened to socially inclusive economic growth and progressive politics?" This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Stagnant and divided
Conversation with Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Introduction and History of Public Health

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Introduction and History of Public Health

This video serves as an introduction to the "Global Public Health" course and addresses the questions of 'what is global public health' and 'how did it come to be'? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

Introduction and History of Public Health
Introducing Sustainable Development
Conversation with Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

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Conversation with Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

This conversation with Rashid Khalidi took place on March 24, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine and the long history of disenfranchisement against the Palestinian people. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Conversation with Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
The Moral Basis for Business Activity
Introducing Sustainable Development

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Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used…

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