These videos are from the SDG Academy course Climate Change Science and Negotiations, first launched in 2014 and taught by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Emmanuel Guérin, Director of International Climate Politics Hub.
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From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses the challenge of human-induced climate change. The general problem is of living in a crowded and productive world. There are 7.2 billion people on… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
How can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This lecture discusses the basics of climate science in order to support the discussion of deep decarbonization and other actions related to greenhouse gas emissions. As… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this lecture, Professor Sachs discusses those whom he calls the poorest of the poor, a population of around one billion people, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and in… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter takes a closer look at current energy trends, specifically the current dynamics of energy markets to see how we can decarbonize energy systems. In 2010,… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Although some people say climate change science is a hoax, it dates back almost two centuries and the basics have become very well understood. Joseph Fourier, a French… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
While to avoid the potential consequences of uncontrolled climate change requires profound transformations of the way we grow our economies, and in particular, a… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter looks at some of the results of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), discussing in detail the country-specific ways in which the transition to… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses anthropogenic greenhouse gases and climate forcing. It is important to note that carbon dioxide and other emitted gases mix with the atmosphere… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter is about the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For 200 years scientists have been telling is that if we cage the atmosphere chemistry a… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter is about carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), or the capture of CO2 at large stationary points such as coal or gas fired power plants, oil refineries,… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses the new generation of nuclear power reactors. there are approximately 40 countries with nuclear energy as part of their power mix, with some… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Negotiating climate agreements is one of the toughest challenges that humanity will face in the long-term, but can be achieved to honor the 2-degree Celsius limit… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses how much anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions we can still emit if we want to live within the 2-degree limit that we’ve set using the…