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CNN with Fareed Zakaria on JFK

‘To Move the World’ Discussion at Roosevelt House

Q&A in the Hurriyet on Turkey

Original article in the Hurriyet. You wrote an article to Guardian about recent strength of Turkish economy. After protests against some Government projects, Turkish stock exchange sharply declined. How do you see after-protests Turkish economics? The eruption of protests has definitely hurt, but so far not decisively. One sensitive indicator, the stock market, is down 16% from the [...]

Beneficial use of science key to post-2015 development

PARIS] Rapid technological progress has made the elimination of worldwide poverty by 2030 a realistic goal for the post-2015 development agenda, but the challenge now is how best to use these advances, which can also harm sustainable development, says a report by a UN-backed science network. Addressing this challenge must be a central question guiding [...]

Q&A: Jeffrey Sachs on the world’s post-MDG future

The UN special advisor and director of a key science network tells SciDev.Net what the road to 2015 will look like. With less than 1,000 days until the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire, efforts to design a new framework to replace them in September 2015 are gathering pace. What targets to include in these Sustainable Development [...]

Morning Joe: Mayor Bloomberg Reveals Storm Protection Plan

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Bloomberg TV: 50th Anniversary of JFK Saving the World

Lessons from Kennedy’s peace campaign

By Juliet S. Sorensen 2:52 p.m. CDT, June 10, 2013 As director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, Jeffrey Sachs has devoted his considerable intellect and energy to global development. It was in this capacity, he writes, that he came across John F. Kennedy’s commencement address at [...]

Leonard Lopate Show on ‘To Move the World’

Sustainable Visions

NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is mobilizing global action around the great challenge of our time: sustainable development. It is a call that the world must heed. It is no longer good enough for economies simply to grow. We must also end extreme poverty, a goal within reach by 2030. We must manage [...]