CLIMATE . CHANGE – Episode 6 – With Jeffrey Sachs, Professor at Columbia University & UN advisor
In Episode 6 and final chapter of the short film series "Climate . Change", Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's most influential economists, Professor at Columbia University and Senior Advisor to the UN on Sustainability, paints a realistic yet scary
American Leadership at Risk – And How to Win It Back
Updated 8 March 2018 Book Review “Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable” by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Author), Bernie Sanders (Foreword) Columbia University Press, February 7, 2017 When Professor Sachs, one of the world’s most influential economists, wrote the book
Hope in a Time of Fear
Looking to Millennials to Realize the SDGs I write at a time of polarization in society. Political factions are bitterly divided in many regions of the globe. Several friends and leaders I trust have privately confided in me, expressing serious doubts
#SDGStories – Launch of Our Sustainable Development Goals Series
Four months ago at the United Nations General Assembly, the global community came together in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and voted their approval unanimously. The SDGs form a comprehensive framework of 17 goals aimed at ending global poverty
ICN2: Where a Pope, a Queen, a King, a Princess and Melinda Gates Come Together
ICN2 is not a new disease, it's the bizarre acronym for the Second International Conference on Nutrition, held in Rome, 19-21 November 2014, at FAO Headquarters. Anyone familiar with the United Nations "alphabet soup" won't be surprised. And in spite