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Global Leaders Miss Chance of a Lifetime
150+ global leaders met in New York to adopt the UN's 169 Global Goals. But world leaders are missing a generational opportunity by not prioritizing. They could use the just 19 targets identified by the Copenhagen Consensus Nobel laureate panel. Read this in TIME, Economic Times (India), El Comercio (Peru) and La Tercera (Chile).
In New York, at the General Assembly, Bjorn Lomborg shared live updates with more than ten newspapers, and met with dozens of reporters.
Between briefing delegates on the Copenhagen Consensus findings, he wrote that the 169 targets were not the best way to help the global poor - read this in the Daily Nation (Kenya), The Sun (Malaysia) and El Universo (Ecuador). And he described the voices not heard at the United Nations, and asked what would benefit them the most - read this in Daily News Egypt, El Espectador (Colombia), Excelsior (Mexico) and El Universal (Venezuela).
In interviews from the UN, including with Norway's business paper Dagens Næringsliv and Los Angeles Times, Lomborg reaffirmed "I'm afraid we are wasting a generational opportunity here."
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Trade-Offs for Global Do-Gooders
In The Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomborg examines what the Global Goals get right -- and wrong. Includes a quiz where readers can test which investments are the smartest.
In his column for Project Syndicate, available in five languages and published around the world, including in outlets like Philippine Daily Inquirer and Tyzden (Slovakia), Lomborg argues that the Global Goals should have been cut back. "The day after the UN conference, when leaders return home and recognize that they cannot work on 169 grand targets simultaneously, they will choose a smaller number on which to focus."
  
Further articles prior to the General Assembly were published in e.g. Listin Diario (Dominican Republic), Der Tagesspiegel (Germany), Berlingske (Denmark), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden).
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How to Solve the Problem of Hidden Hunger
In front of 400 participants, Bjorn Lomborg gave a well-received keynote speech at the first global summit on food fortification, "Future Fortified", in Arusha, Tanzania, hosted by the African Union, Gates Foundation, UNICEF, USAID, World Food Programme and others. He presented Copenhagen Consensus research showing tackling malnutrition is one of the single smartest investments that can be made.
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Pope's Prescription Not What the World’s Poor Need
The Pope's US tour created headlines. He declared an urgent need to respond to climate change to “protect the vulnerable in our world.†But that's not what the world's poorest ask for. The world's worst-off are much more worried about education, health and nutrition, and much better helped directly rather than via climate aid. Also in Latin American newspapers, e.g. El Espectador (Colombia) and Milenio (Mexico).
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UK Commitment to Climate Aid Is Immoral
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced £5.8 billion will be diverted from development aid to the International Climate Fund.
Bjorn Lomborg writes in The Telegraph that there is something profoundly iniquitous about looking at the needs of the world’s poor and hungry -- and then giving them a solar panel.
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Tackling Domestic Violence Pays Dividends
 The Australian government's decision to step up its fight against the scourge of domestic violence does not just make moral sense: it is underpinned by a sound economic case too. Violence stops women from fulfilling their potential and undermines a country's overall performance, costing the world $6.3 trillion every year. If Australia's new policies reduced domestic violence by only 1 per cent – which would seem highly conservative – the benefits would outweigh the costs four to one, as Lomborg writes in The Age.
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What Youths Could Teach World Leaders
In Huffington Post, Bjorn Lomborg outlines the results of 60 youth forums held in 21 countries, where we asked young people what they would prioritize. Their lists were broadly similar to the Nobel Laureate panel.
In Uganda’s leading newspaper The Monitor, Bjorn Lomborg points out that young people in Uganda believe that international donors should prioritize spending on reducing child malnutrition.
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