 Hi, I'm Jeff Sacks, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and I want to invite you and I want to urge you to attend the third annual International Conference on Sustainable Development ICSD, which will take place on Wednesday, Thursday, September 23, 24, on the Columbia University campus. This is the Sustainable Development Conference that you must attend, because this is the one that is just on the eve of the 193 heads of state and government of the United Nations adopting the new Sustainable Development Goals. And the line up, therefore, at ICSD this year is absolutely spectacular. We have top UN officials. We have top business leaders, CEOs from major companies from around the world. We have heads of state. We have top scientists, all talking about the Sustainable Development Goals, the new post-2015 agenda, what the world is going to be called upon to do, what science tells us is essential, what advances in technology and engineering tell us is possible, what the policy community suggests are ways forward for implementing these new globally agreed goals. In other words, ICSD is the first global summit on the new Sustainable Development Goals. Please come join in. These are goals for all of us. This is going to be a wonderful occasion. I look forward to seeing you at Columbia University.