Markets and Supply Chains
Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman
ICT for Monitoring the SDGs

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ICT for Monitoring the SDGs

ICTs can be used in a myriad of ways to help monitor progress towards the SDGs. This video looks at variety of applications of ICTs, such as for earth observation, and to help establish population baselines. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Learn more at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

ICT for Monitoring the SDGs
Managing Data for the SDGs
Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman

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Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman

Speaking from West Papua, Indonesia, where he was attending a high-level meeting on green investment, business leader Paul Polman shares his thoughts on the challenges business face when trying to become more sustainable, the need for corporate collaboration on sustainability policy, and the responsibility of business leaders to take action. Mr. Polman is the Co-founder & Chair of IMAGINE, Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, the B Team, Saïd Business School, and…

Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman
Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
Managing Data for the SDGs

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Managing Data for the SDGs

This video explores the different players and processes that allow data about SDG progress to be collected, reviewed and disseminated. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Learn more at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

Managing Data for the SDGs
Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy
Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law

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Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law

This conversation with Richard Rothstein took place on February 24, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Rothstein's book The Color of Law and America's troubling history of de jure segregation that has led to housing discrimination and wealth inequality for generations of Black Americans. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
Stabilizing CO2 Concentrations
Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy

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Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy

This conversation with Professor Mariana Mazzucato, took place on April 26, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Prof. Mazzucato's new book Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, and the importance of boldly reimagining the capacities and role of government to solve today's "wicked problems" and recover a sense of public purpose. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy
The decision chain of natural resource management: Part II
Stabilizing CO2 Concentrations

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Stabilizing CO2 Concentrations

Focuses on how the world can still maintain CO2 levels below the threshold of dangerous warming by 2100, highlighting the procrastination penalty. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Learn more at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

Stabilizing CO2 Concentrations
Six Major Globalizations
The decision chain of natural resource management: Part II

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The decision chain of natural resource management: Part II

Using the revenues from resource extraction well is difficult. The first reason is that the revenues are volatile, and they are not sustainable. Volatility is evidenced by booms and busts in public spending during the supercycle, or the recent period of sigificant price growth for natural resources. Two examples are given: Ghana, which borrowed US$ 2 billion on the strength of oil discovery and Chile, which had a copper boom and then parked its prices, recognizing their temporary nature.…

The decision chain of natural resource management: Part II
Markets and Supply Chains
Six Major Globalizations

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Six Major Globalizations

This chapter is an introduction to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Jeffrey Sachs provides an overview of the six major waves of globalization: the Great Dispersal, the Neolithic Revolution, Land-Based Globalization, Ocean-Based Globalization, the Anglo-American World, and the New Globalization. He discusses the factors that shape globalization and covers the concept of "diffusion," or the dispersal of concepts, inventions, etc. from one place to others. He briefly addresses…

Six Major Globalizations
ICT for Monitoring the SDGs
Markets and Supply Chains

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Markets and Supply Chains

Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be transported between production and consumption. In off-farm storage, there are issues of food safety, processing, and quality assurance. Seasonal price changes reflect the cost of storage because when simultaneous harvests occur across a huge area, prices are low, but after that, prices rise by exactly the cost of storage, or the…

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