2012-05-20 Ако имате 75 милијарди долари да ги потрошите во текот на следните четири години, и вашата цел е да се унапредат благосостојбата на луѓето, особено во земјите во развој, како може најдобро да ги искористите своите пари? Тоа е прашањето што го поставив пред група од пет водечки економисти, вклучувајќи и четири добитници на Нобелова награда, на проектот Копенхаген Консензус 2012. Учесниците на панел-дискусијата беа избрани поради нивната стручност во утврдување на приоритетите и нивната способност да ги користат економските принципи за да се споредат политичките избори.

How Better Nutrition for Children Helps Solve Two of the World’s Biggest Problems

A group of Nobel laureates analyze the cost-effectiveness of solutions to the world's biggest problems By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Monday, May 14, 2012, at 1:53 PM ET

Over the past two weeks, I have challenged Slate readers to decide what priority to give competing ways to help the planet. We looked at 10 topics, from biodiversity to water and sanitation. In total, there were nearly 40 investment proposals, each with a cost and its own set of benefits.

The goal of Copenhagen Consensus 2012 was to set priorities among a series of proposals for confronting ten great global challenges. A panel of economic experts, comprising some of the world’s most distinguished economists, was invited to consider these issues. The ten challenge papers, commissioned from acknowledged authorities in each area of policy, included nearly 40 proposals for the panel’s consideration. During the conference the panel examined these proposals in detail.

To Educate Children, We Have To Teach Their Parents We can improve education in poor countries by showing parents the importance of schooling.

By Bjørn Lomborg

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 2:06 PM ET

Over the past 50 years, remarkable progress has been made ensuring that children receive basic education. More than 60 percent of adults in low-income countries can read and write, whereas in 1962, just one-third were literate. Today, nearly nine in 10 children around the world complete primary school. Read it online Art BL 2012-05-10 Slate Education.pdf

War Is a Long, Messy Hell And it’s more important than ever that we try to prevent it in the first place.

By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 3:10 PM ET

Without peace and stability, there are impediments to solving every other challenge that we have looked at in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 series. Armed conflict is a major global problem that disproportionately affects the world’s poorest. Not a single low-income country afflicted by violence has achieved even one of the eight Millennium Development goals. 

Can You Really Make Clouds Whiter and More Reflective?

Scientists are getting there, and it might be the one of the best ways to fight climate change. By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Of all of the issues in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 project, climate change is perhaps the most talked-about and charged. Although efforts to strike an international climate deal have come to naught, more newspaper space and celebrity attention has been devoted to this issue in the past decade than any other.  

We Still Need to Save the Rain Forests

Biodiversity efforts are often targeted toward saving cute animals. But the real problem is disappearing forests, wetlands, and mangroves. By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Monday, May 7, 2012 

'Sem inovação, nunca resolveremos o aquecimento global', diz autor de 'O Ambientalista Cético' Without innovation, we'll never solve global warming - says the author of The Sceptical Environmentalist. Bjorn Lomborg gave an interview to Folha, a Brazilian newspaper.  Read it online in Portugese

By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Friday, May 4, 2012.   

An Ounce of Prevention ... It’s harder for poor countries to respond to natural disasters. We should help them be better prepared before hurricanes and earthquakes strike. 

The Thorny Issue of Population Growth

Life expectancy is up and poverty is down worldwide, even with our rapidly expanding global population. Are our fears of catastrophe overblown? By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Thursday, May 3, 2012

Last year, the world population reached 7 billion. It added the last billion in merely 12 years, similar to the time it took to add the fifth and sixth billion. Despite this rapid growth, the doomsday predictions of previous decades about the potentially disastrous consequences of rapid population growth have not materialized.