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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This 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…

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What is Climate Change?

From SDG Academy on 1 August, 2019

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Introduces the idea of climate change, highlighting the difference between weather and climate, and the history of natural climate change versus man-made climate change.…

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Social-Ecological Systems

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Professor Carl Folke discusses a social-ecological system approach, in which people are looked at as being part of, and changing, the planet, in addition to being…

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Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban…

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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There is rising scientific evidence that humanity has now entered a new era that is defined as the Anthropocene, in which humanity is shaping the entire biosphere in a…

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Why Should We Care About Climate Change?

From SDG Academy on 1 August, 2019

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Explains the difference between natural climate change of the past and man-made climate change today, introducing the hockey stick graph. This video is licensed under…

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How SDG 15 Links With Other SDGs

From SDG Academy on 6 August, 2019

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Sustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the…

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Valuing Ecosystem Services

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Ecosystem services can be divided among those that are provisioning; those that produce market goods that are consumed by human beings; those that regulate the provision…

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Paleoclimate Evidence of Climate Change

From SDG Academy on 2 August, 2019

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Looks at climate change in the historical context, explaining why the rate of climate change today is unprecedented. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0…

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Development of the Sustainable Development Goals

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Q&A | Martin Visbeck & Jacqueline Uku |…

Q&A | Martin Visbeck & Jacqueline Uku | 2020 May 14

From SDG Academy on 14 May, 2020

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This live Q&A session took place on May 14, 2020, and answered questions related to the UN Decade of Ocean Science, ocean governance, ocean literacy, and the impact…

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Emissions Reduction: The Only Viable Way Forward

From SDG Academy on 2 August, 2019

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This video explains what we can do in order to stop climate change. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Data for Accountability and Decision-making

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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It's All About the Data

From SDG Academy on 8 August, 2019

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This video covers creating data-driven data, managing data, and using data for government. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Measuring ICT and Education: Frameworks

From SDG Academy on 8 August, 2019

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This video discusses why it is important to measure access to ICT in education and to present a few indicator frameworks to implement ICT for education. This video is…

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Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the…

Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs - Trailer

From SDG Academy on 1 September, 2019

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Click here to enroll in Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs: https://www.edx.org/course/tech-for-good-the-role-of-ict-in-achieving-the-sdg This video…

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