Finance - SDG Academy Library

How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing…

Financing Sustainable Development

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Financing Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy

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How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is licensed under the CC…

Conversation with Casey Michel, American…

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Conversation with Casey Michel, American…

Conversation with Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy

From SDG Academy

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Jeffrey Sachs speaks with journalist Casey Michel, author of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History.…

From Waste to Wealth

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From Waste to Wealth

From SDG Academy

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Webinar 6 Siena International School of Sustainable Development 2022

Investor Activism

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Investor Activism

From SDG Academy

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses ways that investors can be civil society activists in addition to environmental, social, and governance investing. He explains…

Corruption and Politics Today

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Corruption and Politics Today

From SDG Academy

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All of our aspirations for sustainable development depend on good governance. Good governance is vital so that government provides the public investments and the public…

Transformation Challenges

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Transformation Challenges

From SDG Academy

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This chapter opens with a discussion of environmental crises and the need for deep and widespread change. Dr. Sachs goes on to describe six grand transformations that…

Planning and Backcasting

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Planning and Backcasting

From SDG Academy

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This chapter addresses how governments can begin to think about the SDGs, how goals can be made quantifiable, and how SDG planning can be adopted into national…

Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social…

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Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social…

Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social Spending Work

From SDG Academy

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Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert discuss Prof. Lindert’s new book: Making Social Spending Work. Lindert’s new work brilliantly examines the history of…

Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships

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Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships

From SDG Academy

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses how the SDGs require the creation of public-private partnerships to deploy technology to achieve the goals and…

SDG Policy Instruments

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SDG Policy Instruments

From SDG Academy

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Transformation requires more than a call to action; it also requires practical instruments to achieve goals. This chapter discusses various economic, political, and…

New Financing Mechanisms and Global Funds

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New Financing Mechanisms and Global Funds

From SDG Academy

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This chapter discusses the idea of specialized global funds that have pooled funds from government donors and philanthropic donors, focusing on the example of the Global…

Finance and the Real Economy

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Finance and the Real Economy

From SDG Academy

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In the sixth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger differentiates finance from the real economy, and argues for a completely new…

The Role of Global Partnerships for Sustainable…

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The Role of Global Partnerships for Sustainable…

The Role of Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy

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The international context of achieving the sustainable development goals. Agenda 2030 puts a big emphasis on global partnerships and SDG 17 is about global partnerships.…

Organizing Government for the SDGs

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Organizing Government for the SDGs

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This chapter discusses the structure of governments and challenges of achieving deep transformations across multiple sectors. Professor Sachs provides a score-card of…

Capital Markets and the SDGs

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Capital Markets and the SDGs

From SDG Academy

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses some of the issues of private capital financing of the SDGs, as well as the promising aspects of private capital markets to…

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