The UN Climate Summit in Lima achieved little, just like the previous meetings for more than 20 years. As the saying goes, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

Klima og energi er for alvor kommet på dagsordenen igen under FNs nyligt afsluttede klimakonferencen i Lima. Sideløbende foregår FNs årelange samtale om nye globale udviklingsmål. Mange mål vil, med rette, gå på fattigdom, mad, vand og miljø. Mål for energi burde være langt højere oppe på listen.

There was a time when we worried about a “population explosion,” with ever more people fighting over ever fewer resources. Yet, the population growth has decreased since the late 1960s and resources have not run out.

¿Dónde debería enfocar su atención la comunidad mundial en los próximos 15 años? Salud, nutrición y educación pueden parecer prioridades fundamentales obvias pero, sorprendentemente, también hay una buena razón para considerar el acceso a la banda ancha.

In a world where there are so many worthwhile targets demanding our attention, we need to focus on those for which we have the best chance of doing the most good. How about saving more than 14 million newborns by 2030? That’s a pretty eye-catching figure, but one which the author of a new analysis for the Copenhagen Consensus believes is not only achievable, but also highly cost-effective.

In the context of the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Lomborg was interviewed by Peruvian newspaper El Comercio on climate change and the best responses to it.

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.

The November/December 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs features a 9 page article by Dr. Lomborg. “Promises to Keep: Crafting Better Development Goals”, highlights the work of the Post-2015 Consensus  and the valuable knowledge the project is injecting into the post-2015 debate.

2 billion people in the world are still malnourished, and more than 800 million suffer from chronic hunger.

Economic research shows that providing adequate nutrition to pre-schoolers is the best way to spend a dollar to do good in the world.

One of the biggest problems affecting the world’s poor is one that few have ever heard about: illicit financial flows. Though such flows cost people in Djibouti, Congo, and Chad more than one-fifth of their incomes every year, they almost never make headlines. With the world preparing to establish the specific targets that will guide global development efforts for the next 15 years, the time to change that is now.