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Sustainability - Presentation 1

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Keynote
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  • Tuesday, 12 March 2013
  • 00:12 - 00:12
  • Duration: 26 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Mar 2013
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Global Grand Challenges Summit

About the session

Climate change and the impact of population growth on resources are among the greatest risks to mankind's existence, yet efforts to mitigate these risks have been partial and haphazard. There is still no consensus on how sustainable development can be reconciled with strong growth in emerging and developing economies that is lifting billions out of poverty. This keynote presentation asks whether a global systems approach to engineering innovation can bolster political efforts to reconcile economic growth with environmental sustainability.

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    Prof. Jeffrey David Sachs

    Columbia University, The Earth Institute, Director

    Professor Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. Jeffrey serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is Director of the Millennium Villages Project. He is also Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011).
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