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3,619 playsThe 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… -
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1,184 playsOur 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… -
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345 plays"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… -
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175 playsHow can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related… -
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177 playsThis 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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95 playsIn this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees… -
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87 playsThis 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… -
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84 playsThis chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a… -
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40 playsWhile to avoid the potential consequences of uncontrolled climate change requires profound transformations of the way we grow our economies, and in particular, a… -
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108 playsThis video is the third video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and… -
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89 playsThis video is the second video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and… -
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109 playsJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson for a thought provoking conversation on Robinson’s recent novels The… -
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100 playsIn 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… -
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48 playsThis video is the sixth video of unit 5.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and… -
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22 playsTerrestrial ecosystems are all ecosystems on land. Human activities have many adverse effects on terrestrial ecosystems. We are cutting down forests, contributing to… -
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70 playsThis video provides a brief introduction to the concept of EbA and its three basic elements. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.