Jeffrey Sachs - on globalization, climate change and happiness

In this second episode of the podcast, Dan Jørgensen talks with Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

They discuss climate change and the urgent need for a swift global green energy transition in light of Sachs’ new – and very timely – book, “The Ages of Globalization”. A discussion that also touches on the subjects of poverty, sustainability and happiness.

Professor Sachs started his illustrious career as an academic and is perhaps best known for his tenure as Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016.

During that time, he led a university-wide organization of more than 850 research scientists and policy experts in support of sustainable development.

But Professor Sachs is not only one of the most prominent economists of our time. He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders and is a bestselling author and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than one hundred countries.

Professor Sachs has also had a prolific career as adviser to three UN Secretary Generals (Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon, and António Guterres) as well as dozens of heads of state, prime ministers and even Pope John Paul II (on the encyclical Centesimus Annus).

He is currently Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development.