The Age of Sustainable Development

• Week 1 - Course Materials
  Information about the general course structure and reading list can be found here.
• Week 1 - What is Sustainable Development?
  Professor Sachs provides an overview of the challenges the world faces, and introduces the topic of sustainable development.
• Week 2 - Inequality Around the World
  Professor Sachs delves into the reasons for and the measurements of inequality between and within countries.
• Week 3 - A Short History of Economic Development
  Professor Sachs provides a history of economic development, starting with the Industrial Revolution and ending with the current state of modern economic growth.
• Week 4 - The History of Inequality
  Professor Sachs analyzes the intersecting roles of various factors that contribute to some countries advancing while others do not.
• Week 5 - The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty
  Professor Sachs outlines the pathways for achieving the end of extreme poverty.
• Week 6 - Growth within Planetary Boundaries
  Professor Sachs details the various planetary boundaries and their implications for growth dynamics.
• Week 7 - Human Rights and Gender Equality
  Professor Sachs delves into the ethics of wealth, poverty and inequality as well as the forces that widen inequalities.
• Week 8 - Education
  Professor Sachs provides an overview of the state of modern education, and what needs to be achieved for sustainable development.
• Week 9 - Universal Health Coverage
  Professor Sachs provides an overview of the challenges and pathways to achieving universal health coverage.
• Week 10 - Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger
  Professor Sachs provides an overview of food security, farm systems, and ecology and reviews what can be done to achieve a sustainable global food supply.
• Week 11 - Sustainable Cities
  Professor Sachs looks into what makes a city sustainable, the patterns of urbanization, and pathways for urban resilience around the world.
• Week 12 - Curbing Climate Change
  Professor Sachs provides an introduction to the science behind climate change, and describes the negotiations and policies that are necessary to mitigate and prevent the consequences.
• Week 13 - Saving Biodiversity
  Professor Sachs reviews the various threats to the world's ecosystem and biodiversity.
• Week 14 - The SDGs
  Professor Sachs recounts the history of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and describes what is necessary to achieve them.

Jeffrey Sachs

Director, Earth Institute; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management