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@JeffDSachs

Director of the and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network ()

Columbia University, New York
Joined February 2010

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  1. I would like to wish everybody very happy holidays and a healthy, productive, and peaceful 2019. Thanks for great conversations this year. I'll be tweeting less in the coming months as I turn to some long awaited writing. Warm wishes, Jeff Sachs

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    21 Dec 2018

    Bank transfers, the Internet, and air safety depend on global rules. So does combating climate change | 

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    21 Dec 2018

    “Diplomats, rather than engineers, have been at the forefront at UN summits for the past 24 years. The time for to take center stage has arrived”, according to

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    Hear, hear! "Diplomats, rather than engineers, have been at the forefront at UN climate summits for the past 24 years. The time for engineers to take center stage has arrived."

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    21 Dec 2018

    What’s a holiday without some learning? Proud to have completed my course with Facing History and am stoked to be starting my new course on is a real inspiration. Loved module 1 and can’t wait to dive into module 2.

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    21 Dec 2018

    I agree. I have read Unprecedented Crime and it’s excellent. It makes a compelling case for crimes against more than just humanity.

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    The just-agreed “rulebook” for fighting means that it's time to call in the specialists, writes via

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    “Diplomats, rather than engineers, have been at the forefront at UN summits for the past 24 years. The time for to take center stage has arrived”, according to

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    20 Dec 2018

    The situation we are in is like wartime, when things happen fast. We can turn this desperate climate mess around if we stop dithering, tell the engineers what we want to achieve, then make it happen.

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    The Engineers are ready. What is lacking is the International Political will and Government investment to support said Engineers...

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    lost the equivalent of 's this year (but he'll be OK) - the shocking reality of this World’s - does he really do as much work as all of a country’s economy? High time we heed ⁦⁩ call to billionaires

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  14. We need the engineers at this stage to help lay out the roadmap to decarbonization by 2050.

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    20 Dec 2018

    . writes President Trump and others who oppose action to address human-induced climate change “should be held accountable for climate crimes against humanity.”

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    20 Dec 2018

    Time to call in the engineer engineers, indeed: “I don’t really understand what you economists were just speaking about, but .... tell us engineers the desired ‘specs’ and the timeline, and we’ll get the job done.”

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  18. The engineers have renewable-energy solutions that can save the planet. Time to put zero-carbon engineering in the forefront of the climate negotiations.

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  20. Delighted to be among the CNN most popular columns of 2018, on Trump's Climate Crimes Against Humanity

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