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From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
3,672 playsThis 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… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
1,235 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 20 August, 2019
176 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 27 August, 2019
277 playsThis lecture continues the investigation into the limits of growth, crucially noting that some limits have already been hit and that the goals of sustainable development… -
From SDG Academy 19 August, 2019
296 playsHow does emission of greenhouse gases lead to global warming? This chapter depicts and analyzes significant factors and illuminates anomalies contributing to the drastic… -
From SDG Academy 2 August, 2019
122 playsLooks at a demonstration of a zero dimensional energy balance model, showing the different variables and their effects on the model. This video is licensed under the… -
From SDG Academy 2 August, 2019
144 playsIntroduces the one-dimensional energy balance model, building upon previous model's equations. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
164 playsThis chapter addresses clean energy and industry as a key transformation for the SDGs. Professor Sachs opens with a brief discussion of rising CO2 emissions, followed by… -
From SDG Academy 2 August, 2019
149 playsExplains the zero dimensional energy balance model, including how to calculate it using a linear approximation. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
90 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
147 playsThe extractive sector is famously prone to corruption. Resource rich countries on average score far worse than their non-resource rich peers on measures of corruption.… -
From SDG Academy 12 May, 2022
107 playsHydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a thermal process that converts waste biomass into energy and materials. It is termed a carbon negative process because it is green… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
203 playsJeffrey Sachs notes that it is, on the whole, good to have mineral resources or coal, oil, or gas resources as major inputs to the economy; major inputs to economic… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
105 playsDiscovery of natural resources is difficult; this is evidenced by the fact that in the typical poor country, if we look at how many resources it had discovered per… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
41 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 20 August, 2019
164 playsSaleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural…