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Jeffrey Sachs
What does sustainable development look like for current and future generations?
President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network- Lecture Info
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Climate change, global warming, and other looming issues - which felt like problems of a distant future - have now become problems we cannot ignore. Warmer winters are melting the ice caps, forest fires become more frequent and last longer, and species face mass extinction due to ecosystem destruction. What future reality is in store for us? Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics at Columbia University, offers us a way to navigate these impending disasters.
Through his lecture series on GREAT MINDS, he shows us the roadmap to protect both current and future generations from environmental destruction in a sustainable way. Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 can bring us that desired outcome, he says. What are the 17 goals which can create the future we need? Where do we stand right now? Professor Sachs paints us a picture of an ideal world we can all work towards.
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Jeffrey Sachs
Professor of Economics at Columbia University (2002.07-) President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (2012-) Served as an advisor to international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, UNDP, and OECD “Probably the Most Important Economist in the World,” The New York Times (1993) TIME’s “The 100 Most Influential People” (2004, 2005) Writer of The End of Poverty, The Age of Sustainable Development, and The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Jeffrey Sachs is a professor of economics at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Solutions Network. As a long-time leading scholar in the field of economics, he has served as an advisor to such international organizations as the IMF, World Bank, UNDS, and OECD.
Jeffrey Sachs built a reputation as a leading macroeconomist as he helped Bolivia navigate economic hardships in their transition from a dictatorship to a democracy. Thanks to his suggestions, its out-of-control inflation quickly stabilized to ten percent in just one year. Later on, he served as Special Advisor on Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, working on such problems as climate change and the destruction of biological diversity.
The New York Times described his as “probably the most important economist in the world,” and TIME recognized him as one of “The 100 Most Influential People” in the world in 2004 and 2005. His publications include The End of Poverty, The Age of Sustainable Development, and The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions.
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