The Smartest Ways to Fight Malaria

Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg has called the UN out for this, pointing out the consequences of fighting global hunger with climate policy.

“Hunger is a big problem, and for a long time, we have solved it.

Mr Lomborg tells Chris Smith climate change policy and labelling world hunger as a result of climate change is the most costly and least effective way to help.

In a world prone to fickle media attention to short-term crises, we often neglect to consider a long-term game plan for humanity. But right now the world’s 193 governments are gearing up to set our priorities for the next decade and a half at the United Nations’ annual meeting in September 2015. This is a debate worth having, but almost no one has heard anything about it.

In this fifth instalment of The Do-able Dozen: Development projects for 2030 and beyond, Bjorn Lomborg and his Copenhagen Consensus think-tank look at the big potential returns to reducing corruption — and a way to do it.