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Global Launch of the Human Development Report 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPZ9anvjYtc
Time 1:58:46
The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint.
The report lays out a stark choice for world leaders–take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity’s progress will stall.
Is Poverty Necessary? Looking back at the Millennium Development Goals, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DZF7YvwwM
Time 3:59
John Green examines the progress of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals over the last 15 years and looks ahead to the Global Goals. Can we live in a world where extreme poverty and undernourishment are rare? Are we closer to gender equality? How have infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates changed in the last 25 years? And how will we ensure that the astonishing progress since 1990 continues?
Jeffrey Sachs: The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities. C-SPAN Video Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUz_2ph5Ljk
Time 1:22:44
American economist Jeffrey Sachs explains the dimensions, major contents and background of the book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. In the book, Sachs argues that extreme poverty can be eliminated globally by the year 2025 through carefully planned development aid. He presents the problem as an inability of very poor countries to reach the “bottom rung” of the ladder of economic development; once the bottom rung is reached, a country can pull itself up into the global market economy, and the need for outside aid will be greatly diminished or eliminated.
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | Presented by Thandie Newton, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWHuJOmaEk
Time 34:09
Nations United is a film created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Secretary-General’s Video Message for International Day of Peace, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldY-n3F9dg
Time 1:13
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
Sustainable development: What, where and by whom? 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sJ-uixn7Jg
Time 19:13
Sustainable development has been the red line in Kitty van der Heijden’s career. After working for the UN, she is now director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ambassador for sustainable development. At TEDxHaarlem, Kitty van der Heijden takes us on a journey through international sustainable development conferences.
The UN: Tower of Babble? 2010.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/09/20109287246422540.html
Time 49:26
Empire asks if the United Nations is outdated and whether it can stand up to the challenges of the 21st century.
The World We Want: The UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-YRC5D-QY
Time 10:08
A short film about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and why our generation must get involved.
Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hLuEui6ww
Time 3:02
An end to poverty, hunger and inequality worldwide is on the agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed upon by 193 countries at the United Nations in September 2015.
UNDP Future of Development – A conversation between Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, and Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ0baD-0iY
Time 1:12:21
UNDP invites you to the first Future of Development public conversation between Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, and Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator.
Amartya Sen introduced the concept of development of freedom. He was also, along with Mahbub Ul Haq, one of the fathers of the Human Development Report, so his participation in this inaugural event is particularly symbolic as we mark the 30th Anniversary of UNDP’s flagship publication.