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Bjorn Lomborg discusses the finalization of the United Nations' Agenda for Sustainable Development. In short, many of the targets are either marginally useful or highly problematic. Making matters worse, collecting data on the 169 promises could cost almost two years of development aid. As a result...

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This past week Bjorn Lomborg spoke at the #FutureFortified, a three day global summit aimed at boosting interest and awareness in food fortification. In the following news clip released by Devex, Bjorn speaks to why nutrition is such a smart investment for the world. How can the world solve the...

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The Times of India featured an interview with Bjorn Lomborg discussing smart post-2015 development targets. Controversial Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, who upended conventional wisdom with his book, The Sceptical Environmentalist, has been on an interesting mission: to identify the top...

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Recent graduate of Cambridge University, Markus Anderljung wrote his masters dissertation on the Post-2015 Consensus. The entire dissertation is available for download following the brief summary. A Review of Some Ethical Critiques of the CCC The Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC) seeks to inform...

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Bjorn Lomborg’s august contribution to Project Syndicate discusses the effects that smart post-2015 development targets can have on the lives children. Our analysis identified 19 targets that would do the most good for every dollar spent. In fact, each dollar spent on these 19 targets would do...

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In a new article published by the Daily Star, Bjorn Lomborg speaks to the processes of the project (including engaging with hundreds of sector experts in a series of roundtable discussions) and asks the Daily Star’s active Facebook community to tell us, what would their top investment choices be...

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In contrast to the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals include a large number of environmental targets. Bjorn Lomborg explains in The Guardian which are among the best: Economic analysis shouldn’t be the only tool that we use, but it is a vital input to help decision-makers – whether...

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Bjron Lomborg dicusses the smartest post-2015 development targets for a prosperous India Over the last 15 years, India has experienced large strides in its development, not the least urged by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for 2015. Impressively, India has reached the target of...

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Bjorn Lomborg's July contribution to Project Syndicate address poverty targets for the post-2015 development agenda. In 1950, people in South Korea and Pakistan earned roughly the same amount of money annually. Today, the two countries are scarcely comparable. South Korean’s per capita income has...

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The New Yorker reports on both Bjorn Lomborg and the work of the Post-2015 Consensus Project. Having 1,400 targets is like having none at all, and so governments need to make some hard choices, deciding which targets will offer the greatest returns on investment,’’ Bjørn Lomborg, the president of...

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