Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count Bjørn Lomborg 2011-10-14

NEW YORK – It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight. Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist. Funding from developed governments is dropping – a trend that must be reversed. But we also need to acknowledge that billions of dollars have been spent on well-meaning attempts to save lives, with an alarming lack of high-quality evaluation of how these investments have performed. (...)  

OPINION SEPTEMBER 27, 2011. Rethinking the Fight Against AIDS

With funding down, it is critical to identify those measures that achieve the most results for the money spent.

BY BJØRN LOMBORG AND PETER PIOT

Rethinking the Fight against HIV

Bjørn Lomborg 2011-09-15

COPENHAGEN – Thirty years ago, the world got its first inkling of impending catastrophe when five young gay men in Los Angeles were struck down by the illness that became known as HIV/AIDS. Today, the disease has a truly global impact, claiming 1.8 million lives annually – the equivalent of wiping out the population of Washington, DC, three times every year. (...) 

2011 Sept Psychologies

Bjorn Lomborg, academic and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, for shaking up the climate change debate without ever denying the reality of man-made global warming. Nominated by Julian Baggini, philosopher and author of The Ego Trick. 

Sept 5, 2011 The Lomborg Challenge

How can we innovate the price of green technologies?

Interview with Bjørn Lomborg

2011 August, in Forbes Insider

What was your inspiration behind the Copenhagen Consensus?

2011-08-12 Bjørn Lomborg COPENHAGEN – Amid a growing wave of concern about climate change, many countries – including Brazil, Australia, the United States, and the members of the European Union – passed laws in the 2000’s outlawing or severely restricting access to incandescent light bulbs. The intention was understandable: if everyone in the world exchanged most light bulbs for energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), we could save 3.5% of all electricity, or 1% of our CO2 emissions. (...) 

Glocal Hero Award – for the person whose work has both a local and a global impact – will go to Bjørn Lomborg, named by The Guardian as “one of 50 people who can save the planet”. Bjørn Lomborg also made an appearance at the Polish premiere of Ondi Timoner’s “Cool It” on Saturday, August 6th at Multikino 51 at 5 P.M. The documentary focuses on the facts and myths regarding global warming, introduces the audience to the scientist behind the film, which is the main event of the Transatlantyk Eco section. Bjørn Lomborg took part in the debate about counteracting climate change effects.

2011 Aug 12-14 Søndagsavisen Engagerede undervisere hjalp dem i gang Flere kendte danske superformidlere blev karriereinspireret af en engageret underviser Bjørn Lomborg, miljødebattør »Min mentor var professor Jørgen Poulsen. Han engagerede folk og fik os til at tænke og diskutere. Det gav mig en tro på, at universitetet var mere end en pølsefabrik, hvor folk hurtigt presses ud som standardprodukter. Universitetet skal redefinere dig og gøre dig til en tænkende del af vestens tradition, hvor man tør fordybe sig og stille de store spørgsmål.

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