Welcome, UN delegates to New York — please don’t waste our money! Bjorn Lomborg writes an essay for the New York Post to mark the start of the UN General Assembly.
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Ohne Prioritäten ist die Welt nicht zu retten. (The world cannot be saved without prioritities)
Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg write: Let's acknowledge that the need is greater than the available funding, which means we need to focus on the efforts that will have the most impact. With these principles in mind, w...
Let’s make the world better and stop the fearmongering
We also need to conduct a more mature conversation about how to better help the 4-billion people who live in the poorer half of the world, write Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg.
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Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg write: The world is falling short on Global Goals, with a massive funding shortfall. Donors must meet commitments and identify the best investments for the most impact.
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Não estamos atingindo os objetivos globais. E agora? (Global goals will not be achieved. What now?)
Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg writes: This year is the midpoint between the start of the goals, in 2016, and 2030, when they are supposed to be accomplished—and while the goals have done a great deal of good, the wor...
Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg write: The Global Goals are too much of a good thing. The 17 commitments are accompanied by a huge number of targets, 169, to be exact. Having so many targets wouldn't necessarily be an ...
Fighting with hunger, malnutrition is need of the hour
Japan had 6-in-10 children undernourished in 1900. It reached very low levels by 2000. China achieved massive drops in malnutrition in the last 20 years, while other developing countries - like India, Ethiopia and t...
We need to shift from empty rhetoric and trillion-dollar promises to real, efficient, billion-dollar action. It is time to focus our attention where it matters most.
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...there is no way we will deliver on all of them in time. There is no way we will deliver on all these promises in time. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is now implausibly calling for a $500 billion annual SD...
