Great article by Melinda Gates citing our research. We are excited to be mentioned in such a powerful piece. "The global health funds foster hope and generate opportunities because people who are alive and healthy h...

Have you read Bill Gates' article on the best investment he has ever made? If not, check it out! We are so excited to do our part to bring out the evidence on global health investment.

Why don’t we spend much more on nutrition and education? The Brookings Institute tackles this question highlighting our research.  "The cost-effectiveness of nutrition interventions is well known. According to the C...

The University of Pennsylvania asked more than 2,500 journalists, policymakers, donors and scholars to rank the world's best think tanks in 2016.

The Copenhagen Consensus Center is the winner of Prospect Magazine’s 2016 Think Tank of the Year award in the “International Affairs” category for think tanks based in the US. The Center's work was commended by the ...

Anke Hoeffler, Research Officer, Department of Economics, University of Oxford joined the Domestic Violence Crisis: Mobilizing the Public and Private Sectors panel presented by The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan Public ...

I had the privilege of meeting the President of Colombia to discuss priorities for the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, last year. We had an excellent discussion about how to make the world ...

Bjorn Lomborg with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet at the Congress of the Future. The conference is organized by the Senate of Chile for the exchange of ideas between Chileans and world class thought leaders. [[...

Bjorn Lomborg discusses the smartest ways Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan can spend their money to do the most good based on the Post-2015 Consensus findings. The decision by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and ...

Last week, President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Bjorn Lomborg was a guest speaker at the 7th World Science Forum in Budapest. Bjorn was one of four experts chosen to partake in the preliminary panel opening...

Bjorn Lomborg was invited to address the Bundestag, the German Parliament, on October 14. In light of agreement on the Global Goals by the United Nations in late September, Bjorn presented on “Perspectives for the I...

Post-2015 Consensus research on conflict and violence found that violence against women cost the world $6.3 trillion every year. In an op-ed published by The Age Australia, Bjorn Lomborg discusses Australia’s fight ...

The United Nations have approved the Global Goals but did they achieve the most good they could? Bjorn Lomborg discusses in an op-ed published by Time Ideas.  After years of build-up, world leaders at the U.N. Frida...

In a new op-ed published by the Huffington Post, Bjorn Lomborg discusses the top priorities for the post-2015 development agenda as selected by the participating young people of the Post-2015 Consensus Youth Forums....

The New York Times has published an article on the passing of the United Nation’s Global Goals.  The article reports on the success of the passage after years of negotiations but also makes reference to the many con...

Bjorn Lomborg met with some journalists from Africa, Latin America and South Asia in New York. The journalists were each winners of Copenhagen Consensus Center Post-2015 Journalist Scholarships which has enabled jou...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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

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. 

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...

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...

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...

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. Tod...

The New Yorker reports on both Bjorn Lomborg and the work of the Post-2015 Consensus Project.

Today’s Ozy has published a profile on Bjorn Lomborg and his advocacy for smart development targets for the post-2015 development agenda. 

Bjorn Lomborg discusses the benefits that prioritizing smart post-2015 targets will have on India.  When it comes to health, the eradication of tuberculosis should be prioritised. In India, over 2 million develop TB...

A huge global commitment to reducing malaria has paid off and the goal of near zero deaths from the disease is realistic and affordable. A new article in the Guardian which cites our work on smart health targets for...

This week in Addis, governments agreed to pledge $100 billion in malaria prevention and treatment. The report cites the work of the Copenhagen Consensus, stating that cost-benefit assessment conducted on the goals a...

Dr. Lomborg met with Prof. Bibek Debroy in Delhi at NITI Aayog, the think tank of Indian Government.

Katy Daigle of Associated Press published an article entitled “One-Third of World Doesn’t Have a Toilet. Here’s What It Will Take to Change That”. The article delves deeper into the challenge of open defecation faci...

Investing in agricultural R&D to boost yields and reduce food prices for poor people is one of the smartest things the world should focus on and is among the smartest targets as chosen our expert panel.

Bjorn Lomborg’s newest contribution to Project Syndicate discusses the topic of ‘food security’ and smart ways the post-2015 development agenda can help.  One-quarter of all the food in the world is lost each year, ...

If you ask everyone don’t be surprised that you end up with lots and lots of targets."  Bjorn Lomborg stopped by the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal to discuss how the United Nations can set rational targets ...

EurActive published an article which reports on the findings of the Post-2015 Consensus project. The United Nations has drawn up a list of 169 targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the...

On Sunday, David Cameron will meet fellow world leaders at the G7 conference in Germany. There he has an opportunity to quadruple the reach of British and global aid without spending an extra penny.

There is still much awareness building work to be done in order to ensure the United Nations decides an ambitious albeit concise list of smart targets for the world.

On 2nd June, Bjorn Lomborg presented the work of the Post-2015 Consensus and the expert panel’s 19 smartest targets for the world, at the United States' Agency for International Development (USAID).  The talk was ho...

On Thursday the 28th of May, Bjorn Lomborg was the guest of honor at the German Development Bank where he delivered a presentation on the Post-2015 Smartest Targets for the World to an audience of 50+ politicians, p...

In his May contribution to Project Syndicate Bjorn Lomborg discusses the 19 most bang-for-the-buck targets for post-2015 as selected by our expert panel.  It turns out that not all targets are equal. Some generate a...

The Harvard School of Public Health published an interview with Till Bärnighausen, associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Population and co-author of our perspective paper on HIV/AIDS.  It’s chea...

With the conclusion of the post-2015 youth forums in various countries, Bjorn Lomborg has begun writing a series of country specific op-ed articles which discuss the post-2015 target selected by the young people in ...

Bjorn Lomborg met with the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, to discuss the importance of prioritizing smart targets within the post-2015 development agenda. President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed the expert...

Bjorn Lomborg recently presented the findings of the Post-2015 Consensus on the smartest global targets for the next 15 years at Harvard University, where he also talked to Harvard's "Effective Altruism" students an...

The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Our mission is to accelerate the i...

The world’s greatest environmental threat disproportionately harms women and children, particularly in the developing world: it is indoor air pollution. The World Health Organization estimates that indoor pollution ...

Nobel Laureate economists Finn Kydland and Thomas Schelling, together with University of Chicago professor Nancy Stokey, have prioritised the 19 best value-for-money targets for the world to focus on over the next 1...

Bjorn’s April contribution to Project Syndicate discusses health targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Specifically, the results from our research on smart targets to tackle infectious diseases.

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...

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 soluti...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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 desirable; ac...

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 alleviatio...

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. 

Sara Schonhardt of the Wall Street Journal writes an illuminating article reporting on the main findings from our food security assessment paper.  According to a recent study by the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a th...

In his February contribution to project syndicate, Bjorn Lomborg discusses how gender equality can be addressed within the post-2015 development agenda.

Ghana News Agency reports on the first of 15 youth forums to be hosted at Regent University College of Science and Technology in Ghana.  Students at the Regent University College of Science and Technology in Accra, ...

Students from Regent University College of Science and Technology in Ghana kicked off the inaugural Post-2015 Consensus Youth Forum. Present to facilitate the forum were Mr. Nelson Amo and Mr. Douglas Quartey, the P...

Reuters has released a new article which reports on the findings from our research series on water and sanitation targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  Overall, building toilets to eliminate defecation outs...

Reuters has released an article which discusses the findings for Food Security and Nutrition. A total of $239 billion invested over the next 15 years, in road and railway connections to connect farms to markets and ...

Low-income countries, where the world's poorest one billion live, will spend a measly $14 per person on public health care this year. So what are the smartest post-2015 targets for health? Bjorn Lomborg discusses on...

The debate heats up about what goals the world should set itself for 2030 The Economist has featured the work of the Post-2015 Consensus project. The article gives an overview of some of the most bang-for-the-buck t...

Reuters has published an article reporting on the findings from our research on governance targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  The article entitled “How can U.N. measure if better governance programs work...

The Guardian has published an article by Bjorn Lomborg which reports on the findings from our research on post-2015 health targets in regard to infectious diseases. 

Bjorn Lomborg’s January contribution to Project Syndicate discusses the role broadband could play in alleviating poverty. 

China Daily has published Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed discussing the findings from our research on air pollution targets in the post-2015 development agenda. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently proposed establishing a “comprehensive program of action on data” for the SDGs. But proper data for the currently proposed 169 targets could cost as much as 1/8th of all aid...

The Huffington Post has published an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg which discusses the findings from our research on post-2015 targets to address Poverty. 

AFP has published a report about the Center's latest paper on broadband infrastructure which has been syndicated globally including to Russia, Indonesia, South Africa, UK,

The Wall Street Journal has published an article reporting on the findings from our research for infrastructure targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Expanding broadband access through wireless networks woul...

We would be wise to target neonatal deaths and cervical cancer. Time.com has published Bjorn Lomborg’s new op-ed discussing the results from two health perspective papers written for the Post-2015 Consensus. The fir...

The Sydney  Morning Herald has published an article which interviews Bjorn Lomborg and reports on the work of the Post-2015 Consensus to insert a cost-benefit perspective into post-2015 development agenda in order t...

Ban Ki Mon just released his synthesis report "meant to offer some conceptual guidance for the work ahead" with negotiating the development agenda for the next 15 years.  In his statement to the General Assembly he ...

The Guardian has published an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg which dicusses the findings from our Nutrition perspective paper written by Professor Susan Horton from University of Waterloo and professor John Hoddinott from C...

The East African, is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya and circulated within Kenya and the other countries of the African Great Lakes region, including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It contains stories and in-dep...

Reuters has published an article reporting on the link between extreme weather in Peru and the country’s number of stunted children. The article cites the findings from our research paper on nutrition targets for th...

The Wall Street Journal has published an article reporting on the findings from our research on the cost and benefits of nutrition targets for the post-2015 development agenda. The article emphasis what these findin...

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will soon be responding to the United Nation’s proposed 169 targets for the post-2015 development agenda. It is clear that having 169 priorities is like having none at all but what...

The Economic Times of India has published the first article of 19 op-ed articles written by Bjorn Lomborg to be released over the coming weeks. The op-ed articles will discuss the results from each topic covered by ...

As part of a monthly contribution to Project Syndicate, Bjorn Lomborg has written an article covering the topic of population within the post-2015 development agenda.

Devex, a media platform for the global development community which aims to connect and inform on issues like development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability, has recently featured an article written by Bjorn L...

In an op-ed published on Huffington Post Bjorn Lomborg discusses the findings from our research papers on biodiversity targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  The op-ed begs the question “What’s worth saving?...

City A.M. a large business focused newspaper based in London has printed Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed entitled “Why embracing freer trade could be our best chance to help the world’s poor.”  The article discusses the findi...

Forbes.com has published a op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg in which Bjorn discusses the findings from our set of reports regarding climate change.  

The November/December 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs features an 8 page article by Bjorn Lomborg. The article entitled “Promises to Keep Crafting Better Development Goals”, highlights the work of the Post-2015 Consen...

Die Welt, one of Germany's major national newspapers released an article reporting on the findings from our research papers on trade targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  Bjorn Lomborg is interviewed throug...

AFP, one of the world's three largest international news agencies has published an article entitled “WTO Doha deal would make world $11-trillion richer by 2030: Economists” which reports on the findings from our res...

When we think about development priorities, we think of disease, nutrition and education, but actually illicit financial flows is a big player. In fact, 20 sub-Saharan Africa countries have lost more than 10% of the...

Economic Times, India’s largest business newspaper has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg which addresses the world’s hunger problem.  While the world is on track to meet the millennium development goal of ...

We're pleased to announce that 20 major newspapers around the world will be publishing articles discussing the findings of our reports from each of the 18 topic areas. The list includes news sources such as the Mail...

The Telegraph UK has published an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg in which Bjorn gives a great over view of the UN's post-2015 development agenda and discusses the core findings from seven of our research areas including:

Morten Jerven author of our assessment paper for Data for Development has written a great article for the Huffington Post. In the article Jerven illustrates why improved data monitoring will be so important for the ...

Time.com has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg discussing the findings from our recent set of research papers focused on Energy.  The key message of the report: increasing access to modern energy is an imp...

“Here’s $2.5 trillion. You have 15 years to spend it. How do you distribute this money in a way that will achieve the most good for the world?” This is the question Bjorn Lomborg discusses on a recent freakonomics p...

The Guardian has published Bjorn’s Lomborg’s latest op-ed which dicusses the findings from the Copenhagen Center’s latest set of research papers focused on the UN ‘data revolution’. The article begs the questions Ha...

Reuters has published a new article which reports on the findings from our research on Data for Development targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  The report by Morten Jerven, a development expert at Simon F...

Ian Talley of the Wall Street Journal reports on the findings from our research on Science and Technology targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  The idea is for a regional agreement—such as across the Americ...

What is the biggest source of violence in our world?  Surprisingly, it is not civil war as the news would have most of us believe but domestic abuse.  In this op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg discusses this surprising finding...

Time.com has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg in which he discuesses the role of Science and Technology in the post-2015 development agenda.  In the article Lomborg highlights the key findings from set of...

The East African, a weekly newspaper published in Kenya has started publishing an on-going series of op-ed articles written by Bjorn Lomborg.

Anke Hoeffler, Research Officer at Oxford and co-author of our assessment paper on conflict and violence targets for the post-2015 development agenda was interviewed last week by CNN Live. Click here to watch the fu...

Major news sources around the world including: Times of India, Japan Times, Chicago Tribune,

The Guardian has published an article reporting on the findings from Anke Hoeffler and James Fearon’s research paper focused on conflict and violence targets for the post-2015 development agenda, commissioned by Cop...

Reuters has just published a new article entitled “Violence at home costs $8 trillion a year, worse than war – study.”  The article gives a great overview of the findings from our most recent set of research papers ...

The Wall Street Journal has published a new article entitled “Developing Countries Could Reap Trillions by Squashing Financial Secrecy, Paper Says.” The article details the findings from Alex Cobham’s assessment pap...

Upon the release of our latest research on Illicit Financial Flows, news outlets in Africa have become interested, as the research points out that curbing Illicit Financial Flows has a particular importance in Afric...

After one and a half years of deliberations, consultations, and negotiations, the UN’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals released its final outcome document. Building upon the analyses conduc...

The recent article written by Bjorn Lomborg, focused on the education targets for the Post-2015 development agenda, has begun to attain major global attention.

After one and a half years of deliberations, consultations, and negotiations, the UN’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals released its final outcome document.  Above are the 150 most common wo...

The Post-2015 Consensus has just released our latest research series on Education targets for the Post-2015 agenda. George Psacharopoulos, formerly of the London School of Economics and the World Bank writes the mai...

With 60 million children still out of school, the international community should not simply postpone the same universal-education target until 2030. Lomborg calls for an achievable, targeted, and cost-effective appr...

El Mundo, Spain's newspaper of record has published a recent article by Bjorn Lomborg. In this article Bjorn discusses what is to come after the expiration of the millennium development goals and the future global i...

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's newspaper of record has published an article written by Bjorn Lomborg. In this article Bjorn discusses why the work of the Post-2015 consensus is so important and why we nee...

After the recent launch of our series on education targets in the Post-2015 agenda, African media have begun giving attention to the findings. The Daily Graphic a large news outlet in Ghana has been the first to pub...

The United Nations Open Work Group has released their finale outcome document in regard to the Post-2015 goals.  The proposal contains 17 goals and 169 targets.  Currently, the Post-2015 Consensus is drafting our be...

In the article published by the Express Tribune of the International New York Times, Dr. Pervez Tahir gives a brief history on development policy. Although, the Millennium Development Goals are seen as a great succe...

The World Economic Forum has published a recent op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg – “Is ending malnutrition unrealistic?” In this article Bjorn gives an introduction to some of the targets now being proposed by the UN and prov...

While in Washington DC to testify for two US senate committees in regard to “The Costs of Inaction: The Economic and Budgetary Consequences of Climate Change, Bjorn Lomborg took full advantage of his trip to D.C. Du...

July 30th, 2014 was a busy day for Bjorn Lomborg. In addition to meeting with leadership from numerous NGOs during his trip to Washington DC, Bjorn led two talks on the Post-2015 project and how benefit-cost analysi...

In November 2013, Dr Lomborg presented the strong economic evidence and high benefit-costs for nutrition interventions for small children to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences working group during their Bread and Br...

The Wall Street Journal’s weekend review featured a two page spread on the work of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, the Post-2015 consensus and founder Bjorn Lomborg.  In the article, Matt Ridley author of “The Rati...

@Post2015_CCC tweets and updates on Post-2015 Consensus

Napi Gazdaság, published a recent article by Bjorn  Lomborg in which he discusses the SDGs and the Post-2015 Consensus project’s work to provide a cost-benefit analysis of prospective targets.  Click here to read th...

Berlingske, Denmark's paper of record, published a two page interview on Post-2015 Development targets with Center President Bjorn Lomborg. The piece is available on Berlingske's website. Click here to read (in Dani...

Le Monde, France's paper of record, published a story on the United Nation's work in setting the next round of development goals.

Spanish news agency EFE, the world's largest, interviews Bjorn Lomborg during the 12th Session of the Open Working Group in New York City.

Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, has a new piece highlighting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals process. Included in the piece is the Copenhagen Consensus Center's Post-2015 Consensus priorit...

Copenhagen Consensus Center President Bjorn Lomborg visited New York to attend the meetings of the 12th Session of the UN's Open Working Group on Sustainable Development. 

Bjorn Lomborg's new Project Syndicate op-ed about post-2015 prioritization has been published around the world including Turkey, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Uganda, South Korea, Costa Rica and the Philippines. The op-ed di...

The Copenhagen Consensus has updated our benefit-cost assessment of UN's Post-2015 goals for the 12th session of the Open Working Group (OWG), to be held from June 16th to 20th, 2014. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"...

Copenhagen Consensus, in collaboration with the UN Permanent Missions of Viet Nam, the Netherlands, and Mexico, co-hosted a successful side-event to the 11th session of the Open Working Group on May 8th, 2014.  Intr...

An article released today, May 6th, by Eduardo Porter for the New York Times, discusses the post-2015 agenda setting process. The article talks to the need for prioritization of goals, and features an interview with...

The Post 2015 Consensus has today released a new analysis of the draft goals being considered in the 11th session of the Open Working Group (OWG). These preliminary results rank all the draft goals from "phenomenal"...

A new peice, published today by the Inter Press Service, provides a feature article about the Post 2015 Consensus project. Written by Jonathan Rozen, the article provides an excellent overview of our project and wha...

A whirlwind week in NYC saw Dr. Bjorn Lomborg and Dr. Brad Wong in meetings with 18 missions and UN agencies at UN headquarters in NYC. The meetings aimed to spread the word on the Post 2015 Consensus project, and w...

To coincide with the 10th session of the Open Working Group (OWG), Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, Director of Copenhagen Consensus Center and Dr. Brad Wong, Post 2015 Consensus Project Manager, are visiting UN representatives a...

Read our op-ed in The Australian on how effective goal setting can improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids in South East Asia and the Pacific.