“O Brasil está pronto para um avanço importante. Eu estou otimista”

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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 Advocate 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 book is The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020).
(Source: jeffsachs.org)
The following is the interview given to CEBRI-Journal in November 2022.