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The good news about COâ‚‚
A new study shows the positive effects of COâ‚‚ over the past three decades. Despite publication in the prestigious journal Nature, the media largely ignored the paper. This is another sign of the lopsided nature of our climate conversation, which focuses only on negative outcomes.
That is no way to have a smart conversation, Lomborg says in his new column for Britain's biggest quality daily newspaper The Telegraph.
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A hugely expensive way of achieving very little
 World leaders recently signed the Paris climate treaty. In USA Today, Lomborg writes that this is likely the world’s costliest-ever accord, reducing global GDP by about $2 trillion, while achieving very little in temperature reductions.
Also available in Spanish, e.g. in Milenio (Mexico) and El Universo (Ecuador), and Russian (Izvestia).
In interviews for Al Jazeera and Talk Radio AM640 (Canada), Lomborg explains why expectations that the treaty will help achieve the 2°C target are wrong: "It relies on wishful thinking. It’s like going on a diet to slim down, but declaring victory after the first salad."
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A phenomenally good way to tackle corruption
In many countries, government procurement is notoriously vulnerable to corruption. New research for Bangladesh Priorities: Smarter Solutions for Bangladesh presents a solution: electronic procurement makes procurement processes transparent and encourages additional bids. This helps fight corruption and provide cheaper goods and services, saving taxpayer money for other important priorities. Each dollar spent produces $663 of social benefits.
  
Read Bjorn Lomborg's column for Project Syndicate in five languages. It was published by newspapers around the world, including The Philippine Daily Inquirer, New Vision (Uganda), El Tiempo (Colombia) and La Nacion (Costa Rica).
A report on this new Copenhagen Consensus research was also published in Financial Express (Bangladesh).
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The World Bank needs to get global priorities right
The World Bank’s self-proclaimed “new course†focusing on global warming over poverty reduction is an alarming development for the planet’s poorest. While 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty, the Bank is using $29bn annually on ‘national climate plans’. Lomborg writes in The Australian that this is not only immoral but also ineffective, and not what the world's worst-off are asking for.
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The project Bangladesh Priorities: Smarter Solutions for Bangladesh applies the Copenhagen Consensus methodology to spending priorities for Bangladesh. Research has been released on our website and in Bangladesh media, including the biggest English-language newspaper, The Daily Star:
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The project's research has also been in Bangladesh's biggest newspapers Prothom Alo and Bangladesh Pratidin (Bangla). Lomborg wrote features on education and air pollution for Financial Express, and gave an interview to Daily Samakal (Bangla).
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What solutions give the best bang for the buck?
Our economists have analyzed 75 of the best solutions for Bangladesh. Some are amazing (663 dollars of social benefit for every dollar spent) – some unfortunately do less than one dollar of good for every dollar spent. See the whole list here at the Economist.
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In the news
A large number of Bangladeshi news outlets have covered the project, including The Financial Express and Daily Observer.
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Bangladesh Priorities Conference
On May 9-11, all participating economists will convene in Dhaka to present their findings to our Eminent Panel consisting of Finn Kydland, Nobel Laureate economist; Selima Ahmad, founder of BWCCI; KAS Murshid, Director General BIDS; Mushtaque Chowdhury, Vice-chair, BRAC
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