Copenhagen Consensus 2006 UNICEF press release
Copenhagen Consensus 2006 - A UN Perspective was held in at UNICEF House, New York 27th to 28th of October 2006. The list is the outcome of 24 UN ambassadors' and senior diplomats' ranking.
At the Copenhagen Consensus UN meeting, United Nations ambassadors and other senior diplomats discussed priorities for international action on key challenges facing both the developing countries and the world as a whole. A good degree of consensus emerged, both on the principle of setting priorities, given competing demands on limited resources, and concerning the particular urgency of addressing certain challenges, especially in the fields of diseases, sanitation, malnutrition, and education.