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...
