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Financing Sustainable Development

How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Transitioning from the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were launched in 2000 to address global development concerns in a comprehensive structure. They made a significant contribution to global development in areas of poverty reduction, access to education, gender equality and health & well-being. In this video, Mahmoud Mohieldin discusses considerable gaps between countries’ progress and many countries lagged behind in achieving such goals. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Conversation with John Mearsheimer, How States Think

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist John Mearsheimer as they discuss Professor Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Hailed as the most influential foreign policy realist of his generation, Mearsheimer and co-author Prof. Sebastian Rosato provide a groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?Professor Sachs and Mearsheimer discuss the book’s core idea: that states are…

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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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Conversation with Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and retired Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, a former Pentagon insider, as they explore the rare insights revealed in Fritz’s book, Deadly Betrayal, uncovering the truth behind the Iraq War. Drawing from dramatic first-hand evidence, they explore how a covert group of Pentagon advisors during the George W. Bush Administration manipulated intelligence, pressured the United Nations, and swayed Congress and the American public into supporting the…

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Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

Education is crucial for global development and for the success of sustainable development, but this chapter discusses the content of learning to be good citizens in a new kind of world a world that is organized around the principles of sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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The Diffusion of Growth

This lecture emphasizes the importance of diffusion in the relationship between countries in which endogenous economic growth is taking place and those that are experiencing catch up growth. It details the need for a ripple effect” of modern technology and growth from the world’s technological leaders to the areas in the world that are still experiencing stunted growth and extreme poverty from setbacks of the era of colonization. This video is not available under a Creative Commons…

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Reflection on Taking Action in the Anthropocene

This video is a collection of perspectives regarding tipping points and planetary boundaries. This course on planetary boundaries and human opportunities is the first time we summarize the latest science on our understanding of our human impacts on the Earth system, and combine it with the story of redefining sustainable development and a future where humanity prospers within a safe, just, and resilient Earth system. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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The MPI information platform

In this session, explore the MPI information platform, its interpretation, and how that evidence can be used for policy. By the end, you will be able to understand how to interpret the data from the MPI and also have ideas of how people are using it at the national and international level. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.