Aligning Extractive Industries with the Sustainable Development Goals

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs talks about the relationship of the extractive sector to the Sustainable Development Goals. He provides a history of the field of sustainable development, following the conferences and policy decisions that were important in shaping the world that led to the adoption of the SDGs and Agenda 2030 in 2015. The three pillars of sustainable development are economic prosperity, social fairness, and environmental sustainability, and he describes how these align with the SDGs. The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and its partners have mapped how the SDGs relate to the mining sector, which is described here.

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