Study Group Details
125: Beyond Poverty Elimination: Enabling Optimum Survival
Friday11:45 - 1:15
Starting September 27
In-Person
This course deals with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations: the challenges and potential for their achievement by 2030; synergies and friction between goals, targets, and indicators; yearly tracking of progress; the UN and World Bank as catalysts to mobilize governments, NGOs, corporations, and financial institutions; the technological and political world environments; and personal and collective support for the program. This is a multi-lecturer course; it draws on a core of study group leaders who participated in the OLLI December 2018 Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, complemented by outside experts.
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This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: TBA
Hours of Reading: Less than 1 hr/week
Study Group Leader(s):
Robert Kolodney
Bob Kolodney (SGL, angel investor), Ed Elmendorf (President Emeritus, UN Association), Anders Zeijlon (SGL, former World Bank economist), Nancy Donaldson (Former ILO Ambassador), Ron Ridker (SGL, environmental author), Nicholas Burnett (Chair, UNESCO IIEP), Peter Wilson (SGL, RAND), Tony Pipa (Brookings), Mark Schneider (CSIS), and David Newman (Ambassador of Botswana to the United States)