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Trump’s tariff move shows he flunked economics

Published on CNN. President Donald Trump fired the first shot in a delusional and destructive trade war: tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. Shares of US Steel jumped 5.75%, about $460 million in market capitalization, but the overall US stock market capitalization fell by more than 1%, around $340 billion. A few steel [...]

Universidad de los Andes – Sustainable Development in Latin America

Stakeholders Launch Project to Implement SDGs in US States

26 February 2018: Future Now and SDG USA have launched ‘America’s Goals for 2030,’ a collaborative initiative to adapt the SDGs to the US context, and to offer a “non-partisan framework for progress.” The project includes seven goals accompanied by targets, adapted from the SDGs. Read the full article here.

Group launches America’s goals for 2030

Dr. Jeff Sachs and Jim Messina join Morning Joe to discuss Democratic enthusiasm going into the midterms, term limits in China and a goal list for America by the year 2030.

U.S. states must step up to fix social ills – watchdog

NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – None of the United States’ 50 states has achieved quality education, clean energy or any of the ambitious goals similar to the global agenda enacted by the United Nations, a watchdog group said on Monday. States in the northeast have made the most progress while those in [...]

Trump’s War Psyche and World Peace

Donald Trump is not the first leader with a severe personality disorder – characterized by intolerable feelings of inadequacy and an overwhelming need for approval – to gain power. But such leaders have usually gained control in smaller countries that lack the world’s most powerful military. Read the full article on Project Syndicate.

First Conference on Taxation and SDGs Calls for Capacity Building, Multi-Stakeholder Approaches

Participants in the first global conference on ‘Taxation and the SDGs’ discussed challenges and opportunities in using taxation to advance resource mobilization for the SDGs. Governments and stakeholders particularly stressed the need for: capacity building for national tax administration, including for digitalization; coherence between different processes and fora; and eliminating the race to the bottom. [...]

How can we protect workers from AI? FT readers respond

In my column on Monday, I proposed that the coming economic and political disruption that will result from the rise of artificial intelligence would require the public and private sector in the US to come together and create a kind of “digital New Deal” for the up to 25 per cent of the global workforce [...]

India should present a comprehensive plan to tackle climate change, says special adviser to UN chief

Prof Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is also a special adviser to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals to help remove poverty, hunger and disease. A leading economist, he is also director of the of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-editor of the World [...]

Delhi is not liveable because of catastrophic pollution: Jeffrey Sachs

Delhi’s “catastrophic” air pollution has made it an “unliveable city” and a “lack of clarity in government strategy” is to blame for bad air and greenhouse emissions not being tackled effectively, Jeffrey Sachs, head of Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York, said on Thursday. Read the full article in the Hindustan Times.