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How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…

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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…

A World Without Modern Energy

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A World Without Modern Energy

From SDG Academy

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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…

Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission…

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Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission…

Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy

From SDG Academy

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This conversation with Professor Mariana Mazzucato, took place on April 26, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Prof. Mazzucato's new…

Stagnant and divided: Socially-inclusive economic…

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Stagnant and divided: Socially-inclusive economic…

Stagnant and divided: Socially-inclusive economic growth and progressive politics

From SDG Academy

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In this first session of The Turn, Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger set the stage for their discussion and seek to answer the question "What…

The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…

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The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…

The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of Energy Systems

From SDG Academy

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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 Rights of Indigenous Populations

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The Rights of Indigenous Populations

From SDG Academy

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"Laudato Si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic…

Poverty reduction in East Asia

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Poverty reduction in East Asia

From SDG Academy

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Progress in the fight against poverty has been made in the poorest large countries in Asia in the last 40 years and the pace of progress in eliminating poverty has been…

The 2023 World Happiness Report: An Asia-Pacific…

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The 2023 World Happiness Report: An Asia-Pacific…

The 2023 World Happiness Report: An Asia-Pacific Perspective

From SDG Academy

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The 11th edition of the World Happiness Report (WHR) was released on Monday, March 20, 2023, the International Day of Happiness. First published in 2012, the annual…

Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland

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Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Reaganland

From SDG Academy

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In this session of the Book Club, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein discuss his book Reaganland, the "Southernization" of American politics,…

Conversation with Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel…

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Conversation with Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel…

Conversation with Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Wellbeing

From SDG Academy

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, Lord Richard Layard and Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to discuss…

Thinking about Alternatives

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Thinking about Alternatives

From SDG Academy

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In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics…

The Capable Agent: Education

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The Capable Agent: Education

From SDG Academy

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In the ninth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger lays out his four-part vision of a truly progressive approach to education. …

Data for Accountability and Decision-making

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Data for Accountability and Decision-making

From SDG Academy

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Metrics and quantification are essential for measuring SDG progress, and in this chapter, Professor Sachs explores a number of ways that SDG metrics are becoming…

From now to an alternative: The missing project

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From now to an alternative: The missing project

From SDG Academy

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In the final session of The Turn, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Roberto Mangabeira Unger present their visions of a "progressive alternative" and discuss what…

The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

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The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

From SDG Academy

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In this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees…

The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change

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The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change

From SDG Academy

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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…

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