Podcast: Jeffrey Sachs on sustainable development

PODCAST - 31 March 2014 Jeffrey Sachs


MEDIA

IIASA Distinguished Visiting Fellow Jeffrey Sachs spoke to Vienna radio show FM4 Reality Check about the challenges and possibilities for ending extreme poverty. Read the Web story on the FM4 Web site.

Download Jeffrey Sachs on Radio FM4 [mp3, 15,027.8 kb]

Jeffrey Sachs discussed the need to address the intertwined challenges of economic development, social inclusion and environmental sustainability holistically as part of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences joint public lecture series.


About the speaker

Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He 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


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