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Education and Skills

This video is part of Module 5: How can we improve human development in cities? How can we heed the call of Sustainable Development Goal 11 – “making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable“ by 2030? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

This video is part of Module 7: How can the urban environment be protected and cities be made resilient? Learn how the government, the private sector, and other actors can support sustainable urban development. What are the challenges of urban politics and governance? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Education for a Connected World

This video looks at the effect of the technological revolution on the way education is perceived and implemented world wide, focusing on developing coherent policies on ICT for education. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

08:44

Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it cannot support life as we know it, limits known as the planetary boundaries. The human population of the planet has reached 7 billion people and will soon approach 11 billion people. We rely on the earth to support us with ecosystem services; the ocean provides these services by regulating the climate system. The oceans have a…

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Consequences of Climate Change

This lecture focuses on the consequences of climate change, and the dangers of not significantly reducing human CO2 emissions. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used for commercial purposes.

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Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and Opportunities for Reduction

Every night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric tons of food produced annually. for human consumption is wasted along the food supply chain. Food loss is a decrease in quality and the quantity of food reflected in nutritional value, economic value, or food safety of all food produced for human consumption, but not eaten by humans. Food waste is part of food loss and refers to…

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Corruption and Global Business

Good governance is a tenet of development, and when governments are corrupt, economic development and individual sense of well-being within the government's reach are harmed. Professor Jeffrey Sachs addresses the corruption of government today and these two phenomena in this chapter. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

07:44

Equality of Opportunity

Non-discrimination is an interesting concept in law; Joshua Castellino argues that in society, some discrimination is perfectly justifiable. Unjustifiable discrimination occurs in the context of marginalized groups as a consequence of a person’s identity, not necessarily ability. Tools for nondiscrimination need to promote equality of opportunity for all. Societies put in place measures like affirmative action to try to remedy this, though these are only temporary solutions. This video…

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Link between Employment, Work, Income and Wealth

What is the link between employment, work, and wealth? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.