Featured Content: Leadership & Good Governance
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39 playsJeffrey Sachs discusses the importance of global cooperation in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, he notes that cities have a critical role in… -
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39 playsThis video is part of Module 8: How can cities and urban areas be governed better to make them more sustainable? The growing importance of cities and local governments… -
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71 playsDr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway’s first woman Prime Minister, Chair of the Brundtland Commission, and former Director-General of the World Health Organization,… -
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1,959 playsSpeaking from West Papua, Indonesia, where he was attending a high-level meeting on green investment, business leader Paul Polman shares his thoughts on the challenges… -
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90 playsBan Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs share a stimulating conversation about the importance of goal setting,… -
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33 playsProfessor Jeffrey Sachs and former president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos have a lively conversation about overcoming divisions in society, learning to heal, and… -
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15 playsIn this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs uses the Nordic countries as an example of governance pathways to achieve sustainable development, comparing the sustainable… -
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63 playsThis chapter discuses using the SDGs as a centerpiece of governance as a means of achieving the SDGs. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. -
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9 playsNegotiating climate agreements is one of the toughest challenges that humanity will face in the long-term, but can be achieved to honor the 2-degree Celsius limit… -
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48 playsThis lecture discusses the role of good governance as one of the main tenets of sustainable development, looking at its principles and their relationship with the SDGs. … -
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161 playsYou cannot live without living in a state or nation where politics and power are always at work. This is a point stressed by John Cardinal Onaiyekan in his chapter on… -
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62 playsThis lecture serves to explain why government and politics matters in economic development and reducing poverty. This video is not available under a Creative Commons… -
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155 playsIn this chapter, Elizabeth Prügl discusses an initiative that has proliferated in Africa called the Women’s Situation Room. It responds to election violence… -
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42 playsIn addressing the sustainable development agenda of the next thirty to fifty years, it is important to bear in mind six key concerns. The first is an emphasis on… -
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174 playsThis chapter focuses on the process of using ethical business practices to build communities of opportunity. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. -
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4 playsThis chapter looks at international water law, focusing on how international water law contributes to peace and cooperation on shared water resources. This video is… -
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17 playsRecognizing the importance of robust collaboration to ensure that availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation -SDG 6- rightly commits the global…