Section : Introduction (5 videos) | Sustainable Development Goals (Advanced)

Résumé de section

This introduction provides an overview and a first analysis of the current situation in the world with regard to the 17 SDGs. The data is based on the Global Sustainable Development Report published in September 2019 (GSDR 2019), a reference document that shows how far we have to go by 2030. Focuses are proposed on the issues of inequalities, planetary boundaries and adaptation to global change.

The 2019 Global Sustainability Report (GSDR): Overview

Jean-Paul Moatti, Chairman and CEO of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), presents the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). He explains the particularities of this work, carried out by 15 independent scientists, and unveils its 4 main messages.

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The 2019 Global Sustainability Report (GSDR): analysis

Jean-Paul Moatti, Chairman and CEO of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), analyzes the findings of the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). He shows first of all that the trajectory of societies is currently insufficient to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and highlights three perspectives to try to improve the situation: a better consideration of the interactions between SDGs, a mobilization of large financial masses and a new way of doing science.

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The exhaustion of natural resources and disturbances in the Earthʼs great cycles

Nicolas Viovy, an engineer at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA), presents the major issues related to the finiteness of natural resources, be they mineral or biological, and the disruption of the Earth's major biogeochemical cycles, in particular the carbon cycle.

Global inequalities: where are we at ?

Philippe De Vreyer, a professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, discusses the issue of global inequality. He begins by providing information on inequality measurement, before presenting the changes since the early 1990s.

Resilience, adaptation and vulnerability towards global changes

Magali Reghezza-Zitt, a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure - Université PSL, discusses the concepts of adaptation and resilience, in response to the increasing vulnerability of populations faced with global change. She provides some guidance before raising three questions related to their use, which is increasingly being supported by institutions.