-
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
3,579 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… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
1,173 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… -
From SDG Academy 8 October, 2019
344 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… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
175 playsHow can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
95 playsIn this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
82 playsThis chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy 16 February, 2021
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… -
From SDG Academy 16 February, 2021
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… -
From SDG Academy 7 March, 2023
109 playsJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson for a thought provoking conversation on Robinson’s recent novels The… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy 18 February, 2021
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… -
From SDG Academy 20 October, 2021
19 playsTerrestrial ecosystems are all ecosystems on land. Human activities have many adverse effects on terrestrial ecosystems. We are cutting down forests, contributing to… -
From SDG Academy 18 October, 2022
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.