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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This lecture examines the different ideas behind sustainable development. It acts as an introduction to the complexities that make up the world in relation to…
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
From SDG Academy
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This 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…
What Makes a City Sustainable?
From SDG Academy
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This 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…
Business as Usual Versus Sustainable Development
From SDG Academy
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This lecture tells the story of the Millennium Development Goals and their evolution into the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting key conferences and events that…
From the MDGs to the SDGs
From SDG Academy
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This 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…
Consequences of Climate Change
From SDG Academy
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This 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…
Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture,…
From SDG Academy
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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…
The Sustainable Development Goals
From SDG Academy
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This 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…
Environmental Threats
From SDG Academy
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This lecture examines sustainable development through an economic lens. Key ideas in this section are economic growth and progress sustained through economic growth.
Economic Growth and Progress
From SDG Academy
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This lecture introduces the concepts of gross domestic product, gross domestic product per capita, and purchasing power parity. It also defines high, middle, and low…
Incomes Around the World
From SDG Academy
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This 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,…
Continuing Poverty
From SDG Academy
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This lecture serves to explain the basic science behind climate change, highlighting how human interactions with the climate are spurring on further climate change. …
The Basic Science of Climate Change
From SDG Academy
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Enroll 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…
The Age of Sustainable Development – Trailer
From SDG Academy
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This lecture examines the chain reaction of threat that economic development past the planetary boundaries has had on biodiversity. This video is not available under…
What is Biodiversity?
From SDG Academy
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In 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…
The Strategy to End Poverty
From SDG Academy
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This 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.…
Measuring Well-Being
From SDG Academy
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