Sustainable Development and America’s Future with Jeffrey Sachs

Every nation, including the United States, has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide global cooperation until 2030.  Americans still know little about these new global goals. Yet the SDGs could be a powerful moral and political approach for the US to reinvigorate the American Dream.  They can help our country to address and overcome our massive interconnected crises of inequality, unemployment, environmental degradation, and declining trust.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and Winner of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize.