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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)

In this case study, Emilio Guzman shares some insights and thoughts about corporate social responsibility and sustainability being integrated in a business partnerships and collaborating together with the private sector to move the sustainability agenda together. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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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 licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.

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Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

This video is part of Module 7: How can the urban environment be protected and cities be made resilient? Learn how the government, the private sector, and other actors can support sustainable urban development. What are the challenges of urban politics and governance? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Roots of Gender Inequality

Gender inequality has its roots in differences between men and women in society. These result from social constructions of relations, which in turn stem from sexual divisions of labor rooted in biological differences between the genders, such as the ability to breastfeed. Women’s roles are valued less economically, and women also often have limited mobility and are confined to the domestic sphere. Women often experience many types of discrimination–including social,…

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Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

This chapter describes why the concept of sustainable development is so important, why it is so important that we orient towards the three objectives of prosperity, social fairness, and environmental sustainability. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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What Are Human Rights and Why Do We Need Them?

Joshua Castellino addresses why the world needs human rights. He questions how the order that is created by governmental and social systems pays attention to justice. He traces the history of justice from Ancient Greece to the present day and outlines the four primary reasons that the world needs human rights. How can human beings access their rights? How do we prioritize rights? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles

This chapter discusses human impacts on the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles that link the living and non-living parts of the Earth system. These chemical relationships control the general pattern of interaction between geological and biological processes. Professor Cornell uses diagrams that show present day cycles, flows between stocks, and human changes. While people are most familiar with carbon, nitrogen is also a very important element for life on Earth. Nitrogen is fixed from the…

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Privacy and the Importance of Trust

In this video, Professor Katina Michael focuses on the role of privacy with respect to ICTs and SDGs, and emphasize why establishing trust between stakeholders, particularly between governments and citizens, is the most important aspect of any ICT intervention. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Conversation with Robert Lustig, Metabolical

In this conversation, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Robert Lustig discuss the relationship between nutrition and non-communicable disease, the dangers of processed foods, and Lustig's new book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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Ocean Plastic: Where Is It?

Ocean Plastic: Where Is It?

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Plastic in the ocean is polluting the ocean, but in order to address this problem, we need to know where the plastic is within the ocean. In this chapter, Dr. Erik Van…
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Ocean Plastic: What to do about it

Ocean Plastic: What to do about it

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This video addresses the question of how to deal with the plastic problem in the ocean in a sustainable way. Scientists all over the world are busy researching what…
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Case studies: Avoid using single use plastics

Case studies: Avoid using single use plastics

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In this video, Dr Kim Borg discusses a project she was involved with about the problem of the use of single use plastics, and the influence of media campaigns that aim…

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International Student Leader Meeting for SDGs

International Student Leader Meeting for SDGs

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The UI GreenMetric World University Rankings and the SDGs Center Universitas Diponegoro recently launched a new student program entitled the "1st International…
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Sumatra Peatland Restoration

Sumatra Peatland Restoration

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As part of the Sumatra Peatland Restoration program, Belantara Foundation helped to develop an integrated farming that includes cattle fattening, organic fertilizer,…
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Urban environmental health to infuse SDGs in the…

Urban environmental health to infuse SDGs in the classroom

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In this video, Charles-Antoine Rouyer, a course director at York University's Glendon campus, discusses how he infuses the SDGs into his courses using urban health…

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Environmental Planning, Management and the…

Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

From SDG Academy

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This video is part of Module 7: How can the urban environment be protected and cities be made resilient? Learn how the government, the private sector, and other actors…
17:25

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water…

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)

From SDG Academy

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In this case study, Emilio Guzman shares some insights and thoughts about corporate social responsibility and sustainability being integrated in a business partnerships…
12:24

Introducing Sustainable Development

Introducing Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy

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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This…