On Thursday the 28th of May, Bjorn Lomborg was the guest of honor at the German Development Bank where he delivered a presentation on the Post-2015 Smartest Targets for the World to an audience of 50+ politicians, p...
In his May contribution to Project Syndicate Bjorn Lomborg discusses the 19 most bang-for-the-buck targets for post-2015 as selected by our expert panel.
It turns out that not all targets are equal. Some gener...
Widespread male circumcision could prevent more than a million HIV infections
The Harvard School of Public Health published an interview with Till Bärnighausen, associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Population and co-author of our perspective paper on HIV/AIDS.
It’s...
With the conclusion of the post-2015 youth forums in various countries, Bjorn Lomborg has begun writing a series of country specific op-ed articles which discuss the post-2015 target selected by the young people in ...
President Santos receives the proposal of international experts to the Post Agenda 2015
Bjorn Lomborg met with the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, to discuss the importance of prioritizing smart targets within the post-2015 development agenda. President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed the expert...
Bjorn Lomborg recently presented the findings of the Post-2015 Consensus on the smartest global targets for the next 15 years at Harvard University, where he also talked to Harvard's "Effective Altruism" students an...
Bjorn Lomborg Featured Speaker at The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Our mission is to accelerate the i...
The surprising problem that is the greatest environmental danger to women and children.
The world’s greatest environmental threat disproportionately harms women and children, particularly in the developing world: it is indoor air pollution.
The World Health Organization estimates that indoor pollution ...
Smart development goals: To get the biggest bang for every buck, paint a bull's eye on 19 specific targets
Nobel Laureate economists Finn Kydland and Thomas Schelling, together with University of Chicago professor Nancy Stokey, have prioritised the 19 best value-for-money targets for the world to focus on over the next 1...
Bjorn’s April contribution to Project Syndicate discusses health targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Specifically, the results from our research on smart targets to tackle infectious diseases.
