Childbirth needn’t be this deadly

The idea that there is only one correct policy — cutting carbon emissions to zero in a short time frame — is absurd, and especially so when this sole policy is failing globally.

Twelve projects costing US$35 billion could do much more good than the $10 trillion the UN is spending on its official development goals

In this eighth instalment of The Do-able Dozen: Development projects for 2030 and beyond, Bjorn Lomborg explains how freer world trade was key to the historic reduction in world poverty over the past four decades and could bring big future payoffs, too.