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    International Growth Centre public lecture

    The Age of Sustainable Development


    Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs
    Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development,
    Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
    Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on Millennium Development Goals

    Dr Jonathan Leape
    Chair, LSE

    Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSESachs


    THE AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    JEFFREY D. SACHS
    International Growth Centre
    London School of Economics
    4 February 2015
    The Anthropocene:

    It’s All About Scale


    James Watt’s Engine:
    Most Significant Invention of Modern History
    Gross World Output
    Gross World Product per Capita
    Human Population in the Holocene
    SIXTH WAVE SHOULD BE SUSTAINBLE GROWTH BUILT ON DIGITAL REVOLUTION
    THE INFORMATION AGE
    (TRANSISTOR COUNT ON INTEL MICROPROCESSORS)

    XEON PHI
    5,000,000,000
    5.0B
    4,500,000,000

    4,000,000,000

    3,500,000,000

    3,000,000,000

    2,500,000,000

    2,000,000,000

    1,500,000,000

    1,000,000,000 INTEL 4004


    500,000,000
    2.3K

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    Mobile Subscribers Worldwide, Billions

    2005
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    Shenzhen, 1980
    Shenzhen, 2013
    A WORLD IN FLUX
    1. GLOBAL‐SCALE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

    2. RAPID ICT‐ENABLED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

    3. RAPID POPULATION GROWTH IN AFRICA AND SOUTH


    ASIA AND AGING IN THE HIGH‐INCOME COUNTRIES

    4. WORLDWIDE DECLINE OF MIDDLE‐SKILLED JOBS

    5. EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES

    6. ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL MULTI‐POLARITY


    PROGRESS DURING THE MDG ERA
    YET ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTY
    REDUCTION ARE HAMPERED BY THREE
    LARGE HURDLES:

    GROWING INCOME INEQUALITY AND


    SOCIAL EXCLUSION

    CONTINUED RAPID POPULATION GROWTH

    GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES


    GINI COEFFICIENT IN US, 1968‐2010

    SOURCE: US CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE 2012


    GINI COEFFICIENT IN CHINA, 1981‐2012
    Tunis, January 2011 Cairo, January 2011 Athens July 2011

    Tel Aviv, August 2011 Chile, August 2011 New York City, November 2011

    Madrid, September 2012 Istanbul, June 2013 Rio de Janeiro, June 2013
    PERSISTENCE OF HIGH FERTILITY IN AFRICA
    “PLANETARY BOUNDARIES”

    Source: Rockström et al 2009a)


    JAGUARY DAM, SAO PAULO STATE, JANUARY 2014
    SUMATRA FOREST FIRES, MARCH 2014
    BOSNIA, May 16 2014
    HIROSHIMA FLOODS, AUGUST 2014
    STEVENS CREEK RESERVOIR, MAY 2014
    CURRENT DROUGHT RISK MAP, OCTOBER 2014

    INSET FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND WEST ASIA

    http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/v
    ci/VH/vh_browse.php
    2014: Warmest Year on Instrument Record
    Sustainable Development as a Framework
    for Action

    Sustainable Development is the Holistic


    Integration of Economic, Social, and
    Environmental Objectives in an Approach
    to Scientific Analysis, Governance,
    Problem Solving, and Human Action

    The UN Member States are now negotiating


    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to
    be adopted in September 2015
    2015 is the Decisive Year for Setting
    Sustainable Development Goals

    Financing for Sustainable Development (Addis


    Ababa, July 2015)

    Sustainable Development Goals


    (UN HQ, September 2015)

    Climate Change Agreement at COP21


    (Paris, December 2015)
    SDG PRIORITIES
    (CONSOLIDATING THE 17 STATED PRIORITIES
    OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY)

    1. END POVERTY AND HUNGER


    2. HEALTH FOR ALL
    3. EDUCATION FOR ALL
    4. REDUCE ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES; END GENDER INEQUALITIES
    5. SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DECENT JOBS
    6. SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
    7. SUSTAINABLE CITIES
    8. STOP HUMAN‐INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE
    9. CONSERVE MARINE AND TERRESTIAL ECOSYSTEMS
    10. GOOD GOVERNANCE AND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
    Challenges to Meet the Sustainable
    Development:

    Rapid Technological Transformation


    Equity in Social Service Provision
    Community Protection of Natural Resources
    Strengthening of Local Governance
    Sharing Work, Learning, and Leisure
    Restraining Arbitrary Corporate Power
    Responsible investing and Financial Markets
    Re‐Democratizing Our Democracies
    Identifying Shared Global Values
    CRITICAL “SUSTAINBLE SYSTEMS” PRIORITIES:

    SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS

    SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION

    SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION (“SMART CITIES”)

    WILL NEED TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS


    NEED NEW GLOBAL PUBLIC‐PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
    (PPPs) FOR SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES:

    LOW‐CARBON ENERGY SYSTEMS

    RESILIENT AND SUSTAINBLE AGRICULTURE

    SMART ICT‐ENABLED URBAN SYSTEMS

    ICT‐ENABLED HEALTH, EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE


    EXAMPLES OF DIRECTED SCIENCE AND
    TECHNOLOGY:

    VACCINES, MEDICINES, AND DIAGNOSTICS


    RADAR
    CRYPTOGRAPHY
    NUCLEAR ENERGY
    COMPUTING
    SEMICONDUCTORS
    SATELLITES AND SPACE SCIENCE
    INTERNET
    HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
    HIGGS BOSON (CERN)
    BRAIN INITIATIVE
    HALVING OF COST ROUGHLY EVERY NINE MONTHS
    BAU:
    4‐6 degree C

    2‐degree C
    Main Decarbonization Strategies
    Decarbonization of
    Energy
    EnergyEfficiency
    Efficiency End Use Fuel Switching
    Electricity
    to Electric Sources
    Strategy
    Transformation
    Key Metric of

    2014 2014 2014

    2050 2050 2050

    0.0 5.0 10.0 0 200 400 600 0% 25% 50% 75%


    Energy Intensity of GDP Electricity Emissions Share of Electricity and
    (GJ/$2005) Intensity (gCO2/kWh) Electric Fuels
    in Total Final Energy (%)
    THE WORLD WILL NEED TO STRAND OIL, GAS,
    AND COAL RESERVES

    FROM McGLADE AND EKINS, NATURE MAGAZINE, JANUARY 8, 2015


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    120,000
    140,000

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    Solar PV: Annual and Cumulative Production (MW)

    Production
    Cumulative
    KEY ROLES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DISCIPLINES

    (1) Understanding Mechanisms: climate, biodiversity, economic


    dynamics

    (2) Monitoring and mapping Earth system states

    (3) Developing integrated physical‐human systems for the “green


    economy”

    (4) Assisting directed technological change e.g. “deep


    decarbonization,” ICT‐based health and education, sustainable
    agriculture, smart cities

    (5) Leading public and university education, and building a shared


    global framework for action
    Some Recent Alliances for
    Sustainable Development

    • Earth League
    • UN SDSN
    • SDSN.Edu and MDP
    • DDPP
    • PPPs for Low‐Carbon Technology
    International Growth Centre public lecture

    The Age of Sustainable Development


    Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs
    Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development,
    Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
    Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on Millennium Development Goals

    Dr Jonathan Leape
    Chair, LSE

    Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSESachs

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