JEFFREY D. SACHS
IMPLEMENTING THE PARIS CLIMATE
AGREEMENT
The University of Copenhagen is proud to present a sustainability lecture on
17 June
by the
world-renowned professor of economics and leader in sustainable development,
Jeffrey D.
Sachs.
He will talk on
implementing the Paris Climate Agreement.
Henrik Hansen,
Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, will
moderate the talk.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable
development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly
newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue
Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He has twice been named
among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York
Times, “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time Magazine “the
world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor
Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.
Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable
Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is
Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable
Development Goals, and previously advised both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is Director of the UN
Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-
moon.