Bjorn Lomborg presented the 12 best investments with incredible social returns, and discussed why well-meaning companies and consumers shouldn't chose ESG-solutions that just do a little good per dollar or Norwegian...
Every two minutes, nine newborn babies and one mother die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In total this year 2.4 million newborn babies will die within the first month of their lives and 295,...
VACCINATION is one of the true wonders of humanity, having saved more lives than any other medical invention and providing population-level control of diseases that once ran rampant.
Infant mortality is not just a disgrace, it’s economic idiocy
Every two minutes, nine newborn babies and one mother die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In total this year, 2.4 million newborn babies will die within the first month of their lives and 295...
Mortalidad materna y neonatal: una tragedia inaceptable que se puede evitar
Every two minutes, nine newborn babies and one mother die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In total this year 2.4 million newborn babies will die within the first month of their lives and 295,...
One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. Read the second part of the 12-piece series in Daily Graphic.
Every two minutes, nine newborn babies and one mother die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In total this year 2.4 million newborn babies will die within the first month of their lives and 295,...
Pouring resources into agricultural R&D for the most impoverished nations is a game-changer. Read the second part of the 12-piece series in The Economic Times (India).
Vaccination is one of the true wonders of humanity, having saved more lives than any other medical invention and providing population-level control of diseases that once ran rampant. Yet, we often fail to appreciate...
Invertir más en vacunación: una decisión clave para cumplir con los ODS
Vaccination is one of the true wonders of humanity, since it has saved more lives than any other medical invention and has made it possible to control diseases that previously proliferated uncontrollably. However, w...
One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. From 1900 to 2000, there was a six-fold increase in crop harvests while the global population increased less ...
A new research paper for Copenhagen Consensus shows that a modest investment of $5.5 billion annually (less even than Americans spend on ice cream every year) could go a long way and free 133 million people from hun...
The international community must set clear priorities and not try to do everything at once. Bjorn Lomborg kicks off a 12-part weekly series in which he and his colleagues at the Copenhagen Consensus think tank set a...
Instead of having 169 Sustainable Development Goals, let’s prioritise targets that matter most
Over that decade-and-a-half, governments, international institutions and private foundations poured in billions of dollars more than they had before, specifically to achieve the 15 targets. Bjorn Lomborg kicks off a...
Recycling and green spaces must take a back seat to ending hunger, poverty
Between 2000 and 2015 the world made great progress on the Millennium Development Goals, which aimed to hit important targets in education, income growth, fighting disease and so on. In 2015, world leaders followed ...
In the year 2000, something remarkable happened. The world came together and committed to a short list of ambitious targets that became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The objectives, which include...
Despite great progress over the past decades, more than 800 million people still go without enough food. Careful economic research helps identify ingenious and effective solutions. Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson ...
If we want to save our planet, we'd better start with smart solutions for global poverty and poor education. Bjorn Lomborg writes together with Jordan Petersson in the Australian introducing the Halftime for the SDG...
Leaders try to fix every problem but end up getting nothing done
It is therefore long past time to identify and prioritise our most crucial goals. The think tank Copenhagen Consensus, together with several Nobel laureates and more than a hundred leading economists, has done exact...
A priority order for our SDGs can prove effective and win followers
It is prudent for a world facing too many demands with too few resources to focus on the most effective public policies first.
The world will be able to achieve its SDG 2030 promises only by 2078. While there are ...
Meeting in Addis Ababa with the Minister of State at the Ministry of Planning and Development, Hon. Tirumar Abate Ayalew. Ralph Nordjo and Saleema Razvi of the Copenhagen Consensus Center discussed the possibilties ...
Memorandum of Understanding for assisting the government with cost-benefit assessment with the aim of identifying interventions and policies most likely to deliver high social return for the Kingdom of Tonga.
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Editorial published in The Punch, one of Nigeria's biggest newspapers.
In every country, the main role of the government and parliament is to prioritise policy options and investments. Hopefully, these policies will...
In collaboration with the National Planning Authority a traffic-light analysis of the budget strategy has been finalized as input for the budget discusssion. Interventions with high social and economic returns per S...
