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Health and Wellbeing

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the second key transformation, health and wellbeing. The many dimensions of achieving this transformation are considered, including access to universal health care and an integrated health system. Professor Sachs also discusses social determinants of health, such as rising opioid and obesity epidemics due to poorly regulated industry. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Gestión efectiva de una alianza Salud Mesoamerica

En este vídeo, Emma Iriarte habla sobre la Iniciativa Salud Mesoamericano y explica cómo la gestión efectiva ha convertido esta iniciativa en un alianza exitosa. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable Development

The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This course will try to provide a deeper understanding of the complex understanding of the ocean, environment, and climate system. Humans receive resources from the ocean, as well as risks. There will be weekly lectures on different topics, including the basic physics of ocean circulation, the ocean ecosystem, how the deep ocean works,…

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Conversation with Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Nearer

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and futurist Ray Kurzweil for a compelling conversation on the accelerating pace of technological change and its profound implications for the future of humanity. In his new book, The Singularity Is Nearer, Kurzweil revisits and updates his groundbreaking predictions on AI & AGI, exponential growth, and human evolution and longevity.Together, they explore a future where AI rivals human intelligence by 2029, nanotechnology rebuilds the world atom by atom, and our…

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La macroéconomie écologique (Ecological macroeconomics)

Dans cette vidéo pédagogique, le professeur Thomas Lagoarde-Ségot (KEDGE Business School et SDSN France) présente la macroéconomie écologique à travers le modèle visuel du « double engrenage ». Les objectifs d'apprentissage sont les suivant : -Comprendre le fonctionnement global d'une économie de production monétaire -Comprendre le concept d'équilibre de circuit -Analyser les causes et les…

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The Goal of Less Than 2ºC, Part I

How does emission of greenhouse gases lead to global warming? This chapter depicts and analyzes significant factors and illuminates anomalies contributing to the drastic change in our climate. Lastly, this chapter addresses the perils of global warming and the urgency to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, as stated in the Paris Climate Agreement. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it cannot support life as we know it, limits known as the planetary boundaries. The human population of the planet has reached 7 billion people and will soon approach 11 billion people. We rely on the earth to support us with ecosystem services; the ocean provides these services by regulating the climate system. The oceans have a…

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What Makes a City Sustainable?

This lecture explores sustainable cities as both green cities and resilient cities. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used for commercial purposes.

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The Budget, Public Revenues and Expenditures

This chapter discusses fiscal policy and institutions, beginning with a focus on the Maastricht Treaty, and goes on to explain fiscal balance, with a discussion of aging populations and unemployment. The Great Recession of 2008 is mentioned for its effects on world revenues and government income. Professor Larraín discusses the issues of public spending and revenue and the national budget, which is the summary of all expenditures and an estimation of the revenues that a government has…