Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change
Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development – Trailer
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)

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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.

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)
Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing
Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development – Trailer

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Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development – Trailer

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Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development – Trailer
Investor Activism
Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

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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 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…

Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing
Getting to Know the SDGs
Investor Activism

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Investor Activism

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses ways that investors can be civil society activists in addition to environmental, social, and governance investing. He explains the motivations for ESG investing and the morality behind investor activism. Divesting activism and shareholder activism can also be very effective, and examples are given from the fossil fuel industry.

Investor Activism
The Changing Patterns of Infectious Disease in Time and Place
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.

Getting to Know the SDGs
The Challenge of Sustainable Development
The Changing Patterns of Infectious Disease in Time and Place

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The Changing Patterns of Infectious Disease in Time and Place

This video addresses the history of infectious diseases, looking at different infectious diseases and the evolution of how they were addressed over time, and explaining the changing attitudes towards infectious disease in control, eradication, and prevention. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Learn more at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

The Changing Patterns of Infectious Disease in Time and Place
The Sustainable Development Goals
The Challenge of Sustainable Development

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The Challenge of Sustainable Development

This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet. In this final video, Professor Sachs talks about the environmental challenges that have come from the growth of the world economy due to globalization. The challenge of economic growth and prosperity, together with the challenges of social inclusion and fairness and environmental crises, make up the work of sustainable development, or creating economies that are smart, fair, and inclusive. Since the…

The Challenge of Sustainable Development
Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change
The Sustainable Development Goals

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The Sustainable Development Goals

This lecture looks at the 40 year history of sustainable development on the international stage and the development of the SDGs from past failures of attempts to mitigate climate change, and the destruction of biodiversity, and protect against desertification.

The Sustainable Development Goals
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)
Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

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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? environmental planning, management and the politics of change, urban sprawl, how cities can move to be more compact

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