Jeffrey Sachs - Strategies for deep decarbonisation of the global energy system - a podcast by Experience ANU

Energy lies at the heart of the world's sustainability challenge. On the one hand,
abundant, accessible, low-cost energy is vital for economic prosperity. On the
other hand, the world's pattern of energy use, based on fossil fuels, threatens
massive future climate change with devastating potential consequences. The
greatest sustainability challenge, therefore, is to meet the energy needs of
a growing world economy while moving to a safer pattern of energy use. In
this talk Jeffrey Sachs will discuss strategies for creating a road map on deep
decarbonisation to ensure the world can have the energy that it needs for
prosperity while reducing CO2 emissions drastically.
Jeffrey D Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, a leader in
sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated
columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries.
He serves as Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, as well as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable
Development and Health Policy and Management. 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 the Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the
Millennium Villages Project. He has authored several books including three
New York Times
bestsellers:
The End of
Poverty
(2005),
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
(2008),
The Price of Civilization
(2011), and
To
Move the World
(2013).
This lecture is presented by the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at Crawford School of Public Policy at
The Australian National University, in partnership with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and
the Monash Sustainability Institute at Monash University, as well as Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF).
It relates to Australia's contribution to the UN SDSN Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project, led by ClimateWorks
Australia and ANU.

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