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A Brief History of the SDGs.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- How to Achieve the SDGs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainability.
- Environment and Social Issues.
- History.
- Goal setting.
- Civil rights.
- Sustainable engineering.
- Economic conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- Sustainability.
- Environment and Social Issues.
- History.
- Goal setting.
- Civil rights.
- Sustainable engineering.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Lecture/presentation
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : SDG Academy, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- This video presents the origins of the SDGs, how they arose and why? The video conveys the core idea that clear goal-setting is essential for progress and examines the process through which the SDGs were established. Prof. Sachs begins a discussion of historic development by reaching back several decades to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) to the Millennium Development Goals to the present.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2026).
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