Professor to talk about Australia in an age of sustainable development

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs.

Those of us interested in how or future should/could/might evolve would do well to get themselves to the Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday night by six o’clock to hear Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs.

The professor is known to many because of best-selling books, “The End of Poverty”, “Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet,” and “The Price of Civilization”.

His free lecture at the town hall is presented by the Monash Sustainability Institute as the Australia/Pacific Regional Centre of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network working with the Australian Council for International Development.

Wednesday night’s event also has the support from the City of Melbourne.

The professor will discuss “Australia in the Age of Sustainable Development” in which he will consider the fact that humanity is now pushing against planetary boundaries.

He will expand on that idea and discuss the achievement of economic growth that is both environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive?

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, is a 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 Millennium Development Goals, and held the same position under former Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Professor Sachs is a Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, as well as co-founder and director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General’s MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development.