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The Role of Business in the SDGs

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the role of profit-oriented business in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He explores the considerations that business managers should have in mind when considering the SDGs, including the role of the SDGs to define the kind of world and economy we want in the future, the issues of corporate responsibility and governance, and the creation of public-private partnerships. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should…

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How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the Poor

The Millennium Development Goals were commitments made in the year 2000 by the UN to help Africa and other poor regions of the world end extreme poverty, and also to fight the battle against climate change because there is no way to end extreme poverty if climate change runs rampantly out of control. All of Africa and the drylands, which are some of the most vulnerable places in the world to climate change, are experiencing rapid population growth, and the combination fo these demographic…

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A Brief History of the SDGs

This chapter presents the origins of the SDGs, how they arose and why? The chapter conveys the core idea that clear goal-setting is essential for progress and examines the process through which the SDGs were established. Dr. Sachs begins a discussion of historic development by reaching back several decades to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) to the Millennium Development Goals to the present. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should…

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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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Solow's Growth Convergence Model

In this chapter, Professor Larraín explains Solow's Growth Behavioral Model. He explains terms such as capital stock, investment, marginal productivity of capital and capital-labour ratio. He does so using production functions and the capital labor ratio. There is a consideration of population growth, capital stock per worker, depreciation, and saving. Exogenous growth is a given in Solow’s model, and technological progress can be incorporated into the model. There is a…

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Non-renewable Ocean Resources: From Exploration to Exploitation

In the long run, resources will become scarcer and scarcer, but there is a possibility that resources will be recovered from the ocean. There is an abundance of seabed mining in shallow water, but none in the deep sea. The overwhelming vast majority of marine mining is now sand for construction materials, eclipsing all other forms of industrial activity in the oceans except fishing and oil and gas. Two principle activities going on in deep sea mining are exploration, or looking for and defining…

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Using Goals to Motivate Social Change (The Moonshot and the SDGs)

This chapter discuses using the SDGs as a centerpiece of governance as a means of achieving the SDGs.

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Economic consequences of the epidemic: costs of disease, costs of mortality, economic disruptions, macroeconomic impacts, economic inequality

This is the seventh lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. The course offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the global Covid-19 epidemic. We will consider the epidemic from multiple perspectives, including: the historical role of epidemics in human history; the basic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2; the basic virology of SARS-Cov-2; the nature and causes of zoonotic diseases;…

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Climate Transition as a Driver for Change with Professor Jos Delbeke

Webinar 9 Siena International School of Sustainable Development 2022

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Defending our Common Home: Global and Local…

Defending our Common Home: Global and Local Actions

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Youth and Food: New Entrepreneurs in the Food…

Youth and Food: New Entrepreneurs in the Food Systems

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This chapter discusses new sustainability careers in the agri-food sector, including robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and genomics. Current educational…
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Education for Sustainable Development and Global…

Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

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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…

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Curriculum for SDGs at Abdullah Gül…

Curriculum for SDGs at Abdullah Gül University

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The main purpose of Abdullah Gül University's Global Issues & Responsibilities (GLB) Curriculum is to increase students and faculty members' awareness…
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Vectors of medical importance on the island of…

Vectors of medical importance on the island of Cyprus

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Cyprus University of Technology have developed an effective common surveillance program for vectors on the island of Cyprus. This is particularly important regarding the…
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How Kateb University's LMS Offered Access to…

How Kateb University's LMS Offered Access to Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic that stopped class-based education in Afghanistan, Kateb University developed its own Learning Management System (Kateb LMS) to…

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The Role of Business in the SDGs

The Role of Business in the SDGs

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the role of profit-oriented business in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He explores the considerations that…
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How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…

How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the Poor

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The Millennium Development Goals were commitments made in the year 2000 by the UN to help Africa and other poor regions of the world end extreme poverty, and also to…
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Financing Sustainable Development

Financing Sustainable Development

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How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is not available under a…