Economy
Jeffrey Sachs
Sustainable Development
A global crisis just ten years away. Do our world leaders have a solution?
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 6 Lessons ㆍ 1 hours 28 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English, 简体中文, Spanish, French, 日本語
What does sustainable development look like for current and future generations?
Climate change, the destruction of biological diversity, global desertification, and numerous other impending disasters threaten the world that current and future generations must live in. Aren’t there any solutions to these problems? Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network, visits this lecture to share with us the promising future of sustainable development.
The lecture series begins in 1992 with the UN Conference on Environment & Development in Brazil. World leaders gathered to discuss a variety of ways to address these environmental issues facing humanity. In 2012 at Rio+20 in Rio de Janeiro, 192 world leaders met again to review the efforts of the past twenty years – only to realize our progress towards our environmental goals have been woefully inadequate. They acknowledged the need for sustainable development, which builds a better world for future generations without causing too much harm to people here now.
What are the solutions? The answers are in the seventeen goals adopted by the 2015 UN General Assembly, where Jeffery Sachs served as a special advisor. In his lectures, we learn about the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals and what it takes to reach them. In the course on “Sustainable Development,” American economist Jeffrey Sachs gives us a glimpse of the reality we will wake up to in 2030.
Full Bio
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)
- Author of <The End of Poverty, The Age of Sustainable Development>, <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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