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In this video published on our channel, world-renowned economist, senior UN advisor and best-selling author Jeffrey D. Sachs talks about the causes of the wars in Ukraine, Syria and Gaza and offers solutions that the United Nations can pursue to end them. The mainstream media in the West has largely ignored this speech.
This video was produced on November 20, 2023 and sent to us by Jeffrey Sachs with permission to publish.
To read the transcript of this video: Jeffrey Sachs addresses the UN Security Council on the wars in Palestine, Syria & Ukraine
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocat under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Sachs has received 41 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia. His most recent books are The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).
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