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Global warming more dangerous than N-plants

By Ryuichi Otsuka / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior Writer Jeffrey Sachs, a U.S. economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, has published a new book titled “The Age of Sustainable Development” as part of his long-running commitment to exploring such worldwide problems as poverty and global warming. During a recent visit to Japan, [...]

What is a Moral University in the 21st Century?

Speech at Columbia University March 30, 2015 I’m grateful for the opportunity to speak today on the question “What is a Moral University in the 21st Century?”  I want to thank Dr. Robert Klitzman, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at the Columbia University Medical Center, for taking the initiative [...]

Why the Sustainable Development Goals Matter

ROME – Following the progress made under the Millennium Development Goals, which guided global development efforts in the years 2000-2015, the world’s governments are currently negotiating a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the period 2016-2030. The MDGs focused on ending extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease, and were the most important global development [...]

Financing Education for All

NEW YORK – Of all of the investments needed to achieve sustainable development, none is more important than a quality education for every child. In a knowledge-based world economy, a good education is vital for finding decent work; achieving good health; building functioning communities; developing the skills to be a dependable parent; and growing up to [...]

Review: Sustainability science: Exploiting the synergies

Nature 519, 156 (12 March 2015) Dave Griggs relishes Jeffrey Sachs’s analysis of the policy and practice key to a viable future for people and planet. The Age of Sustainable Development Jeffrey D. Sachs Columbia Univ. Press: 2015. ISBN: 9780231173148 As a concept and practice, sustainable development emerged on the global scene in 1972, with [...]

CNN: Climate change threatens global development

By separating nature from economics, we have walked blindly into tragedy

Recent news brings yet another example of hubris followed by crisis followed by tragedy. The hubris is our ongoing neglect of human-induced climate change, leading to climate disruptions around the world. One of the many climate crises currently under way is the mega-drought in São Paulo, Brazil. The recent tragedy is an epidemic of dengue [...]

World Bank Talk: The Age of Sustainable Development

Please find further information about this event at the World Bank website: http://live.worldbank.org/age-of-sust...  

No Hiding From Sustainable Development

NEW YORK – One year ago, I was in Brazil to launch the Brazilian chapter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), an initiative of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The main message I heard that day was that São Paulo was suffering from a mega-drought, but that state and local politicians were keeping [...]

This Year’s Climate Talks Are Our Last (and Best) Chance to Slow Global Warming

An interview with Jeffrey Sachs on the 2015 Paris negotiations, sustainable development and the profound threat facing our planet. In December 2015, world leaders will gather in Paris to negotiate a binding agreement to reduce global carbon emissions. It will be the twenty-first major UN climate summit since 1992. Two decades of conferences have coincided [...]