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Leaders aim for sustainable development after Millennium goals success

The Los Angeles times has published an article reporting on the upcoming approval of the United Nation’s Global Goals, citing the findings of our research and quoting Bjorn Lomborg.  Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish economis...

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Trade-Offs for Global Do-Gooders

In a new article published by the Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomborg discusses what the United Nations should prioritize for the Agenda for Sustainable Development to do the most good for the world. 

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Unsustainable Development Goals

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...

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The buzz from the #FutureFortified Global Summit in Tanzania

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...

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Pick solutions that offer highest social and environmental returns: Bjorn Lomborg

The Times of India featured an interview with Bjorn Lomborg discussing smart post-2015 development targets.

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Weighing The World

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. 

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Next-Generation Development

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 g...

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Towards a consensus on Bangladesh priorities

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...

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These are the four SDGs we need to agree on to help the planet

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 to...

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Fewer, effective development goals will help India much more

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 Dev...

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