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Wanna help save the world? Get $mart

NYPost

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. Read the full oped Welcome, UN delegates to Ne...

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Ohne Prioritäten ist die Welt nicht zu retten. (The world cannot be saved without prioritities)

NZZ

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 mi...

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Let’s make the world better and stop the fearmongering

Business Day

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. Read the entire oped Let’s mak...

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SDGs are unlikely to be met. What comes next?

Hindustan Times

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. Read the ful...

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Não estamos atingindo os objetivos globais. E agora? (Global goals will not be achieved. What now?)

OGlobo

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, th...

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We are not reaching the Global Goals. What now?

Dhaka tribune

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 b...

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Fighting with hunger, malnutrition is need of the hour

Economic Times

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...

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Halftime But Nowhere Near Halfway

Addis Fortune

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. Read the full oped in Halftime But Nowhere N...

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Let’s rescue the SDG agenda

Daily Nation

...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...

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Verden kommer ikke til at holde sine løfter (The world won't keep its promises)

Jyllands-Posten

We have promised everything to everyone, as a consequence we do not reach the promised goals e.g. improved health for the entire world's population.

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