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Speaking from West Papua, Indonesia, where he was attending a high-level meeting on green investment, business leader Paul Polman shares his thoughts on the challenges…
Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman
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Introduces the idea of climate change, highlighting the difference between weather and climate, and the history of natural climate change versus man-made climate change.…
What is Climate Change?
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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…
How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…
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This is a guest lecture by Prof. Glenn Denning, Columbia University, in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by…
Covid-19 Impacts on and Implications for the…
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Our most important mission and goal is to increase access to modern energy in poor places in the world so that simple daily tasks can be achieved much more easily and…
A World Without Modern Energy
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This chapter provides an overview of the ideas and thought processes that are used to work towards achieving sustainable cities. Jeffrey Sachs elaborates on the…
Why Cities: The Importance of SDG 11
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Explains the difference between natural climate change of the past and man-made climate change today, introducing the hockey stick graph. This video is licensed under…
Why Should We Care About Climate Change?
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This is the first lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. …
The history of epidemics and their impact on…
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In this video, Dr Kim Borg discusses a project she was involved with about the problem of the use of single use plastics, and the influence of media campaigns that aim…
Case study: Avoid using single use plastics
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In this chapter, Jeffrey Sachs proposes a 10-point agenda that cities should follow to catalyze sustainable development, and outlines some of the pros and cons of…
The 10-point Agenda for 21st Century Cities
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How can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related…
The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…
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The three pillars of Deep Decarbonization are: efficiency, decarbonisation of electricity, and the switching of end uses (such as cooking and driving) away from direct…
The Three Pillars of Decarbonization
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Looks at climate change in the historical context, explaining why the rate of climate change today is unprecedented. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA…
Paleoclimate Evidence of Climate Change
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How does emission of greenhouse gases lead to global warming? This chapter depicts and analyzes significant factors and illuminates anomalies contributing to the drastic…
The Goal of Less Than 2ºC, Part I
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Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway’s first woman Prime Minister, Chair of the Brundtland Commission, and former Director-General of the World Health Organization,…
Leading in a Complex World | Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Looks at a demonstration of a zero dimensional energy balance model, showing the different variables and their effects on the model. This video is licensed under the…
Zero-dimensional Energy Balance Model…
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