These videos are from the SDG Academy's flagship course Age of Sustainable Development, first launched in 2014 and taught entirely by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
2,758 playsThis lecture examines the different ideas behind sustainable development. It acts as an introduction to the complexities that make up the world in relation to… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
2,332 playsThis lecture explores sustainable cities as both green cities and resilient cities. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
983 playsThis lecture introduces two paths for the future: the Business as Usual path and the Sustainable Development path. It examines the major negative impacts of the Business… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
928 playsThis lecture tells the story of the Millennium Development Goals and their evolution into the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting key conferences and events that… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
987 playsThis lecture focuses on the consequences of climate change, and the dangers of not significantly reducing human CO2 emissions. This video is not available under a… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
276 playsThis lecture continues the investigation into the limits of growth, crucially noting that some limits have already been hit and that the goals of sustainable development… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
684 playsThis 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… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
360 playsThis lecture introduces the idea of the Anthropocene, the age of human interaction with the climate, in the context of the SDGs. It examines climate change as a result… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
389 playsThis lecture examines sustainable development through an economic lens. Key ideas in this section are economic growth and progress sustained through economic growth. -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
342 playsThis lecture serves as an introduction to the idea of poverty in the context of the SDGs. It further examines the geography of poverty and the concentration of low,… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
452 playsThis lecture introduces the concepts of gross domestic product, gross domestic product per capita, and purchasing power parity. It also defines high, middle, and low… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
274 playsThis lecture serves to explain the basic science behind climate change, highlighting how human interactions with the climate are spurring on further climate change. … -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
414 playsIn this lecture, Professor Sachs uses differential diagnosis to look at extreme poverty and poverty traps in sub Saharan Africa. This video is not available under a… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
158 playsThis lecture examines the chain reaction of threat that economic development past the planetary boundaries has had on biodiversity. This video is not available under… -
From SDG Academy 20 July, 2020
285 playsEnroll in Age of Sustainable Development. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
211 playsThis lecture examines the different ways to measure well-being in a country, introducing the Human Development Index as an alternative as well as subjective well being.…