Our Age of Sustainable Development

Teach Global Citizenship Network newsletter no. 22

Do you also want a broader knowledge & deeper understanding of sustainability?

Do you also think that involvement in sustainability issues is part of being a responsible citizen today?

Have you also thought that you need to deepen your knowhow on United 17 Nations Sustainable Development Goals (DGS), and how to reach them?

If YES, then this free distance learning course (on university level) might be something for you, too:

“Globalization: Past and Future” taught by Professor Sachs, this course covers the waves of globalization that have shaped the world over thousands of years. It posits that prioritizing global perspectives is not a “new-age” fad; we have always been a globalized world.

The course starts October 30th. Learn more and enroll here: https://courses.sdgacademy.org/learn/globalization-past-and-future-fall-201

- See all SDG courses this semester: (https://courses.sdgacademy.org)

- About professor Jeffrey Sachs: http://jeffsachs.org/about/

Course summary with more details. 

https://courses.sdgacademy.org/learn/the-age-of-sustainable-development-september-20

What is SDG Academy?

“The SDG Academy is one of the flagship programs of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN launched in 2012)

The SDG Academy is committed to creating and curating the best educational content on the Sustainable Development Goals and making it available as a global public good through our online course portal. The SDG Academy has created 7 full-length courses and 2 mini-courses since it launched in 2014 (under the original title of SDSNEDU), and has had over 100,000 enrollments from students all over the world. It is the ambition of the SDG Academy to reach 1 million students by 2020 through the education initiative.”

For the full list of programs of the SDSN, please visit https://courses.sdgacademy.org

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Deveelopment Goals was adopted by all the UN countries in 2016: - see overview and deepening of each goal at

http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

All links were retrieved October 2016

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Teach Global Citizenship Network newsletter no. 22

To read any of the previous 21 newsletters/ simply visit the blog (link). The content are thematic introductions & curated learning possibilities.

Oktober 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Egon Hedegaard

Email: eghedegaard@gmail.com

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