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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

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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…

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…

The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change

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The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change

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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…

The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

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The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

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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…

Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

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Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

From SDG Academy

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This chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a…

The Earth's Energy Balance

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The Earth's Energy Balance

From SDG Academy

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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…

Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…

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Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…

Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based Solutions Programme Officer, IUCN

From SDG Academy

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This 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…

What is an Energy System?

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What is an Energy System?

From SDG Academy

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While to avoid the potential consequences of uncontrolled climate change requires profound transformations of the way we grow our economies, and in particular, a…

Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case…

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Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case…

Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case study from Colombia

From SDG Academy

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This 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…

Energy and Poverty

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Energy and Poverty

From SDG Academy

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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…

Interview with Koen Doens, Director General…

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Interview with Koen Doens, Director General…

Interview with Koen Doens, Director General DG-INTPA, European Commission

From SDG Academy

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This 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…

The History of Climate Change Science

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The History of Climate Change Science

From SDG Academy

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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…

Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, The…

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Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, The…

Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

From SDG Academy

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson for a thought provoking conversation on Robinson’s recent novels The…

The Relentless Rise of CO2

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The Relentless Rise of CO2

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Carbon dioxide makes up about 2/3 of the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, mainly from burning of coal, oil, and gas. There has been a relentless rise in carbon emissions…

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