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From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
How can the world of policy and science respond to the latest advancements in science? In the Anthropocene, we can no longer avoid catastrophic tipping points; we need a… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
How can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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 SDG Academy on 24 August, 2019
Paul Maseli asks how recent trends affect the interpretation of Industries without Smokestacks. -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the third video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger explains that traditional means of promoting economic… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the second video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger lays out the three axis points of his progressive alternative: democratization… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
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… -
From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020
In the fourth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger outlines the characteristics of the knowledge economy and discusses what… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This 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 on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter takes a closer look at current energy trends, specifically the current dynamics of energy markets to see how we can decarbonize energy systems. In 2010,… -
From SDG Academy on 24 August, 2019
Click here to enroll in Industrial Policy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for Africa: https://www.edx.org/course/industrial-policy-in-the-21st-century-the-challeng -
From SDG Academy on 14 January, 2020
Vanessa Fajans-Turner and Taylor Smith from SDSN discuss SDG financing.