The Age of Sustainable Development
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs
Chair: Jonathan Leape
Recorded on 4 February 2015 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.
In this public lecture Professor Sachs will talk about his upcoming book, The Age of Sustainable Development, which explains the central concept for our age, which is both a way of understanding the world and a method for solving global problems - sustainable development. Sustainable development tries to make sense of the interactions of three complex systems: the world economy, the global society, and the Earth's physical environment. It recommends a holistic framework, in which society aims for environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive development, underpinned by good governance. It is a way to understand the world, yet is also a normative or ethical view of the world: a way to define the objectives of a well-functioning society, one that delivers wellbeing for its citizens today and in future generations. This book describes key challenges and solutions pathways for every part of the world to be involved in problem solving, brainstorming, and determining new and creative ways to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth.
Jeffrey D. Sachs (@jeffdsachs) is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, best selling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time Magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world's three most influential living economists of the past decade.
Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General's MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. He has authored three New York Times best sellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). His most recent book is To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (2013). His upcoming book The Age of Sustainable Development will be published by Columbia University Press on March 10, 2015.
Jonathan Leape is the Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE.
The International Growth Centre (@The_IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID.
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I've taken his class on coursera and can only recommend it. I was impressed by the facts of the problems we're facing and how everything is connected. I now see the big picture.
Thank you Dr Sachs.
Bloody good lecture in breadth and depth. Clear calm and concise description from a man that not only knows his stuff but he’s experienced the world and understands the reality, not just the theory.
I enjoyed his talk, it would have been better if the video includes the slide show he is refering in his talk.
awsome but we don't see the presentation's slides
Thank you for the information! 🤝
Inputs well noted. Thanks for sharing.
Please enable us to see the slides too during the lecture. This will tremendously enhance the wonderful things you are doing.
@deepakbellur9676
9 жыл бұрын
***** Thank you ever so much for enabling the slides. Very much obliged. :-)
Sorry. What about the PowerPoint Presentation? Is it possible to get it? Because should be convenient to see it along with the presentation but, it is not possible, perhaps before. May you put a link to get it?
it is good talk and more information for development.
it is possible to grow food and be sustainable at the same time if the mass production of food is broken down into local production for communities. Of course the diversity of food might then be reduced or it might not if it is possible to grow a large variety of foods by the means of vertical farming.
i did feel much better during this little time frame, though.
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@seedplanter7173
4 жыл бұрын
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IN the national context :Good politics lead to good economics . But in the global sphere sustainable development need sustainable political stability . How are we to build this sustainable stability while nation-states are always warring and the UN and WTO are reduced to impotency if not to say nullified...I wish the Professor and his best colleagues will work out for a solution...
Jeffrey D. Sachs... Time to find your email.
Great speech
@phillipking792
8 жыл бұрын
why no slides and is it science
@laspbestsemester8281
7 жыл бұрын
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/Events-Assets/PDF/2015/20150204-Jeff-Sachs-PPT.pdf
Love you too all People and then world Godbless Jesus Christ Amen Diyos Ama Ina
Awesome
58:11 Prof. Sachs in the last 3 minutes of this lecture; "We need candidates that can win without campaign contributions. That’s the bottom line of it…" Could almost be a campaign ad for Bernie Sanders! #Bernie2016 #feelthebern
@MiranUT
8 жыл бұрын
+Paul Almond They are both social democrats. Go Bernie!
@blogger365
3 жыл бұрын
If I understood correctly, Dr Sachs was an adviser to Sen. Sanders' presidential bid.
What we could have done without all these people who only cost and cause crime.
The SDGs came into effect in January 2016, and they will continue guide UNDP policy and funding for the next 15 years. As the lead UN development agency, UNDP is uniquely placed to help implement the Goals through our work in some 170 countries and territories. A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society. These inclusive partnerships built upon principles and values, a shared vision, and shared goals that place people and the planet at the centre, are needed at the global, regional, national and local level. . Philemon Joseph -Fundraising Strategy Consultant.. (SDG Fundraising Consultancy)
had to go get a water for when he says, "hydration."
@motherlymoments
5 жыл бұрын
because they all played their disrespect games again.
Sachs should run for president
@randyphipps1451
7 жыл бұрын
Your delusional I bet you voted for trump
@randyphipps1451
7 жыл бұрын
You put your faith in a reality tv star, you really shouldn't be talking. You know Trump masks his lack of competence with all that arrogance right?
@randyphipps1451
7 жыл бұрын
He mastered in economics at harvard what what the hell are you talking about?!? Trump can barely speak English!
@randyphipps1451
7 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry buddy but narcissists don't make good leaders and trumps a prime example of that. He is doomed for failure it's just a matter of time.
@randyphipps1451
7 жыл бұрын
haha I knew you were going to deflect. Its trumps signature move. You need to get a grip on reality and your Messiah needs to grow up and stop acting like a five year old. If you fucks try to ruin our country (once he gets impeached) I'll be happy to defend my nation from psychopathic fascist's.
all words no action
This guy is crazy
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He doesn't have all the facts. He doesn't talk about the solar maximum and solar minimum. Then there is poles shifting. The volcano effects. He doesn't talk about the ozone hole is growing smaller. He doesn't talk about how the earth's climate has changed many times from a warm climate to a cold climate.
Omg elections and sports. Wth
You can't tell me you don't know war is about genetics a keeping young males with high testosterone busy.
It is always a bit shicophrenic to hesr somebody talking about climate change while at the very same time he tells us about his fantastic inter-continental travels. These persons are a real threat.
I could have sworn he said "...welcome Jeff Beck to the LSE..." What the hell was he listening to in the green room before having to come out and introduce some corrupt economist he doesn't care about? This guy is a closet guitarist. Interesting.
why did they all ignore me, then? when i reported pharming, they called me schizo. "I'd have to speak to my webmaster after the holidays." #Fired
@motherlymoments
5 жыл бұрын
that's all less than five percent of content. by making it more than five percent, they make me feel sick. my account has been flooded with idiots.
@motherlymoments
5 жыл бұрын
- psych is to be less than five percent of all content on my account, and they all broke contract. doing that makes people sick -- it destroys other areas of knowledge.
@motherlymoments
5 жыл бұрын
I repeat: Psych destroys other areas of knowledge, nothing else. It does not hinder; it literally destroys.
This is very disturbing.
gulp, gulp, scratch your face, nervous cough,,,,,ooops nervous cough, again.... ooops ...itchy face, again, Prof. Sachs ? Are you nervous for any reason ? Are you covering something up ?