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Getting the word out

Over the past 18 months, the Post-2015 Consensus brought together renowned experts from the United Nations (UN), non-governmental (NGO) and private sectors with 60 teams of economists to produce 100+ research papers...

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Push for Cleaner Stoves in Poor Countries to Cut Pollution

Do you know what black carbon is? It is killing millions of Indian women each year as reported in an article by the Associated Press.  The article cites the findings from Post-2015 Consensus research on smart s...

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The 169 commandments

The Economist has published an interesting article detailing the problem with an exhaustive list of proposed sustainable development goals. The SDGs are supposed to set out how to improve the lives of the poor in em...

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The good, the bad and the hideous

The Economist has published a new article which reports on the expert panel’s recommendations for the post-2015 development agenda. Those conclusions contain a warning for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals ...

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Limit UN development goals for 2030, get more value for money

Upon the release of the recommendations from the Post-2015 Consensus expert panel, major news sources around the world including, Germany's newspaper of record, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Reuters begun to re...

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Bjorn Lomborg Presents on Post-2015 Consensus

On March 17th 2015, Dr. Lomborg visited the University of Western Australia to give a lecture entitlted "What's the Smartest Targets For The World 2016-2030", on the work being done by the Post-2015 Consensus projec...

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Time to focus on fight against TB

New Age reports on the Bangladesh focused seminar on the post-2015 development agenda.

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The Price of Biodiversity

In his March contribution to Project Syndicate Bjorn Lomborg addresses the inclusion of biodiversity targets within the post-2015 development agenda.  Preserving biodiversity, it turns out, is not only desirabl...

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Nigerian youths set out to define UN post-2015 goals

The Cable reports on Post-2015 Consensus youth forums taking place in Nigeria.  They are eight international development goals adopted based on the United Nations Millennium Declaration to include poverty allev...

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The spread of western disease: 'The poor are dying more and more like the rich'

The Guardian has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg discussing the findings from our research focused on post-2015 development targets to address non-communicable diseases. 

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