Okay, we are live with Alexander Mercuris and the one and only Professor Jeffrey Sacks,

the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University.

And you have an incredible blog as well where you post all of your articles.

And I will have a link to all of that information in the pinned comments.

It's right now in the description box.

When the live stream is over,

I will have Professor Sacks' information as a pinned comment down below.

We have 30 minutes with the great Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

Alexander, what are we going to talk about? I think G20 is on the agenda today. Let's begin.

Absolutely. Can I just say the G20 summit is turning out to be enormously important, in fact, historic.

I am surprised. I had thought it would be otherwise,, in fact, historic. I am surprised. I had thought it would

be otherwise, but in fact, we're seeing the movement of events accelerate and deepen, and perhaps

we should have listened, I should have listened more carefully to what Professor Sachs has been

saying for some time, because an awful lot of things have happened in Delhi. We've had the

African Union join, something which Professor Sachs said would happen and it has. And we also

see how the diplomatic initiative is moving increasingly to a wider range of powers.

We see also some very bitter articles, I think inappropriately bitter articles about this

appearing in the media in the West and lots of emphasis about certain comments in the

joint statement about Ukraine, which I think to some

extent overshadow the greater story of what is actually taking place at the G-SET 20 summit.

But Professor Sachs, this is very much the sort of thing that you are very expert on.

You follow these events.

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