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THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC) DISCUSSION OF INTEGRATING SOCIAL MEDIA DIMENSIONS, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC) DISCUSSION OF INTEGRATING SOCIAL MEDIA DIMENSIONS, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY "To feed nine billion people by 2050, warns an expert we need to produce more in 40 years than in the last eight millennia " The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) discussed today how to integrate the social, economic and ecological sustainability.   Organized around two round tables on "the convergence of policies for sustainable development" and "intensifying efforts for sustainable development", the day of the debate was an opportunity to emphasize the importance of science and innovation to improve food productivity of a planet where 870 million people suffer from hunger and he will feed 9 billion people by 2050.   Research Director of the World Agroforestry Centre, Philip  Dobie,  said that the production of food for the next 40 years would be higher than what has been produced during the last eight millenni...

A Global Call to Action for Sustainable Development:

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Today I   had the pleasure to participate on a panel moderated by Maher Nasser, Director, Outreach Division UN DPI  with; Jeffrey Sachs , Director of The Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University; Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. N ikhil Seth,  Director of the Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA).   Cassandra Dutt,  Civil Engineering, Theater and Architecture major in the Integrated Degree in Engineering and Arts & Sciences (IDEAS) Honors Program, Lehigh University Class of 2013. Mark Orrs,  Director and Professor of Practice, Sustainable Development Program, Lehigh University.    We were discussing  the  challenges to sustainable developmen...