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	Copenhagen Consensus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The project is based on the contention that, in spite of the billions of dollars spent on global challenges by the United Nations, the governments of wealthy nations, foundations, charities, and non-governmental organizations, the money spent on problems such as malnutrition and climate change is not sufficient to meet many internationally-agreed targets.
		The emphasis on "rational priorization" is justified as a corrective to standard practice in international development, where, it is alleged, media attention and the "court of public opinion" results in priorities that are sometimes arbitrary and/or sentimental.
		Lomborg had argued in his controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, that resources allocated to mitigating global warming would be better spent on improving water quality and sanitation, and was therefore seen as having prejudged the issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copenhagen_consensus (1046 words)

	Global Inequality Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Global Crises, Global Solutions: Priorities for a World of Scarcity, Bjorn Lomborg, Cambridge University Press...
		Global solutions and attractors of a Maxwell-Bloch Raman laser system in two transverse dimensions Global solutions and attractors of a Maxwell-Bloch Raman laser system in two transverse dimensions We study a Maxwell-Bloch system describing the...
		Global problems, global solutions: why we need a UN Economic and Social Security Council.
	www.life-insurance-critical-illness-cover.co.uk /lifeinsurance/global_inequality_solutions.html (501 words)

	Global Crises, Global Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Global Crises, Global Solutions, and it will be available for you to purchase at the end of the program today.
		The global models tend to show that if we could totally abolish global trade barriers and subsidies, the benefits could be upwards of $2,400 billion a year, and they would fall equally — that is, $1,200 billion a year — to both the rich countries and to the poor countries.
		Communicable diseases and malnutrition were at the top; global warming was at the bottom of their list too.
	www.carnegiecouncil.org /viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/5090 (8770 words)

	Printable Version
		His new book, "Global Crises, Global Solutions," argues there are other, more pressing issues that deserve the world's resources.
		Most of the impacts of global warming will be problems, but you need to put it into context.
		The subjects of our interviews are leaders in their fields, people of creativity, foresight and innovation, who will help us examine the present with an eye toward the future on the subjects that define us and our times.
	www.sfexaminer.com /articles/2005/02/04/peninsula/20050204_ne05_lomborg.prt (1441 words)

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		This weighty tome— the brainchild of its editor, a professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark— is based on the audacious and, in my opinion, slightly misplaced premise that economists have all the answers to the world's most serious problems.
		Since the economists met in the Danish capital (where they were paid an honorarium of $30,000 each for their exertions), the emerging document— consisting of a total of 38 proposals of which only 17 were finally ranked from "very good" to "bad"— has been called the "Copenhagen Consensus".
		Interestingly, not a single proposal under the challenges of financial instability, conflicts, and education, were considered by the panel to be worthy of ranking.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005061400021600.htm&date=2005/06/14/&prd=br& (937 words)

	Global Crises, Global Solutions: Priorities for a World of Scarcity £7.14. Find & Buy Global Crises, Global ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Global Crises, Global Solutions: Priorities for a World of Scarcity £7.14.
		The only thing missing from the process is a dispassionate analysis of whether the solutions make economic sense and, if so, which ones make the most economic sense.
		Then it set the task of identifying solutions that would provide the biggest benefit for the cost, examining 38 proposals for spending $50 billion over four years.
	www.ukshoppingnetwork.net /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0521606144 (780 words)

	AEGiS-LT: A Sorry World -- Busted and Broke
		Global warming should be addressed, the conference participants decided, but through long-term investments in renewable technology.
		But the solutions to civil war are elusive, and military interventions are often politically anathema.
		But there's a solution: programs promoting condom and clean-needle use among groups at high risk for HIV and information to the general public, combined with some anti-retroviral medication.
	www.aegis.com /news/Lt/2004/LT041209.html (1139 words)

	Why Globalization Works
		Major objections to globalization are itemized, analysed, and (sometimes bordering on the polemical) met.
		He is also very balanced, equally criticizing and exemplifying both the proponents and detractors of globalization.
		His chapter 8 alone ("rise, fall and rise of a liberal global economy" is worth the price of the book) (How nationalism and social security retirement schemes were used by governments to stay in power).
	www.fullcreditrepair.info /ebooks/isbn0300102526.html (361 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Globalization compounds the problem to the extent that its tendency is to erode the autonomy of the sovereign state.
		Similarly, the modern premise that governing legitimacy is exclusively derived from the consent of the governed through democratic processes (where is old-fashioned colonialism when you need it), runs the risk of raising expectations in developing countries that may very well be unrealistic, at least in the short-term.
		Finally, he shows how such various global problems such as fighting terrorism and AIDS, the nonproliferation of WMD, and encouraging the spread of democracy, depend upon strong, not weak states, and that the U.S. and Europe must both come to terms (in their own ways) with this new international approach.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801442923 (1076 words)

	Articles: Journalists
		Skeptical enviromentalist Bjorn Lomborg and a team of international economists test the status quo of global spending priorities, recommending more emphasis on fighting communicable diseases and the twin devils of hunger and malnutrition.
		With scarce global resources, the book argues that the best opportunity to do the most good is to address communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria and the second is malnutrition and hunger.
		Global Crises, Global Solutions, Bjorn Lomborg, The Press Syndicate of The University of Cambridge, 2004,
	www.whybiotech.com /canada-english.asp?id=4895 (1122 words)

	Global Crises, Global Solutions
		This report is an excellent, controversial and refreshing approach to global problems.
		Global Crises, Global Solutions is an anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors directly addressing problems facing the world today, such as climate change, financial instability, communicable diseases, conflicts, cooruption, malnutrition and hunger, trade barriers, water access and more.
		Each problem is discussed from the point of view of an expert skilled at analyzing the problem's scale as well as cost-and-benefit policy options for improving the situation.
	www.nuris.us /Global-Crises-Global-Solutions-06762124060481075947.jsp (841 words)

	The Institute for Humane Studies - Global Cost-Benefit Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Their results are reported in the book Global Crises, Global Solutions, which serves as a catalog — minus the gilt-edging — of aid projects for governments to consider.
		Next, for each challenge a selected expert economist exhaustively estimated the costs and benefits of each available solution.
		Global Crises, Global Solutions is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to find ways to improve the world and for any policy makers who desire cost-effective solutions.
	www.theihs.org /article.php?id=986&print=1 (1410 words)

	Powell's Books - Global Crises, Global Solutions by Bjorn Lomborg
		Bjø rn Lomborg is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute.
		Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a rich set of arguments and data for prioritising our response most effectively.
		Whether you agree or disagree with the analysis or conclusions, Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious, yet accessible, springboard for debate and discussion.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0521606144-0 (565 words)

	The Smoking Room: Global warming will save us all (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hit and Run links an interesting interview with Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish economist whose 2001 book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" argued that environmental crises are so hyped that we miss the real problems the world faces.
		Hypothetical end-of-the-world crises grab headlines precisely because there are no solid facts to restrain their presentation by the confused media, but it's the regular tragedies of preventable disease that get so little attention precisely because we know so much about them.
		When sensational accounts of global warming appeared in the general press, they jumped on those just like the rest.
	www.gregpiper.com /archives/003702.html (388 words)

	[e-laser] news roundup 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Convene serious thinkers to create^ a list of critical issues facing the global community that are^ amenable to governmental intervention, prune and prioritise^ the list to the top 10, enlist leading economists to outline^ the challenges, add thoughtful commentaries, and then rank the^ final 10.
		Of concern is the failure of the^ Copenhagen Consensus to accord greater priority to chronic illness^ and its global burden of disease and over-nutrition with impeding^ epidemics of diabetes and heart disease in most of the developing^ world.^
		Rather than read /Global Crises, Global Solutions/, the curious^ physician looking for insights into the complex societal and^ economic issues that cloud the future would be better off subscribing^ to the /Economist/.^
	www.mail-archive.com /laser@inventati.org/msg02151.html (456 words)

	John Quiggin » Blog Archive » Responding to the critics, part 2
		Sood denies my initial claim that Lomborg did not argue that the scientific evidence on global warming was wrong, focusing instead on the idea that it would be better to spend money on aid projects.
		It’s true that Lomborg spends some time in his book discussing arguments that the threat of global warming may be overstated in scientific terms, but (wisely) he doesn’t rely on any of them.Here are a couple more sources, favourable and hostile, giving broadly similar summaries of Lomborg’s position.
		Lomborg then spent another 12 pages arguing that the consequences of global warming were likely to be less harmful than commonly believed, which is another way of saying that the problem has been overstated.
	johnquiggin.com /index.php/archives/2005/01/28/responding-to-the-critics-part-2 (627 words)

	AEI-Brookings Joint Center
		Previously he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1973 to 1981) and deputy director of development and trade research at the office of the assistant secretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Department (1971 to 1973).
		He started by criticizing the widespread lack of acknowledgement that prioritizing global challenges is necessary, noting that resources are limited and that trying to solve every problem simultaneously is inefficient and ends up not solving any problem well.
		He also pointed out that many proposed solutions to climate change, such as taxes of various types, are revenue-raising rather than revenue-depleting, and thus determining returns on aid spent may not be an appropriate way to measure their impact.
	www.aei.brookings.org /events/page.php?id=136 (1942 words)

	Infochange India News Books & Reports Global solutions for global crises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From looming threats of a warmer earth to epidemic proportions of communicable diseases; from emerging global water crises to the dreadful spectre of a food-insecure world, it is now evident that both rich and poor countries alike will have to face crises on many fronts.
		Any increase in overseas development assistance by donor countries is likely to be resisted as many amongst the leading 15 donor nations haven't even stood by their earlier commitment of setting aside 0.7% of their GNP towards development in the southern hemisphere.
		At a global level, governments and institutions in the West are continuously re-inventing themselves to exercise greater control over matters of Third World governance.
	www.infochangeindia.org /bookandreportsst87.jsp (1077 words)

	Eternal Recurrence: Reviewing Global Crises, Global Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This time the subject is Bjorn Lomborg's Global Crises, Global Solutions, the 650 page final report of the inaugural Copenhagen Consensus.
		William Cline, the author of the main paper on climate change and an advocate of aggressive carbon abatement taxes, suggests that we should abandon the traditional practice of adjusting costs and benefits for pure time preference on issues that stretch far into the future.
		Lomborg argues that even if the U.S. and the rest of the world followed the Kyoto Protocol completely, global warming would only be postponed for six years.
	www.jacobgrier.com /blog/archives/000347.html (1307 words)

	A Better Earth - Global Crises, Global Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shorter pieces from experts offering alternative positions are also included; all ten challenges are evaluated by a panel of economists from North America, Europe, and China who rank the most promising policy options.
		Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious, yet accessible, springboard for debate and discussion and will be required reading for government employees, NGOs, scholars and students of public policy and applied economics, and anyone with a serious professional or personal interest in global development issues.
		Bjørn Lomborg is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute.
	www.abetterearth.org /article.php/966.html (294 words)

	Akademika
		Its authors, eminent economists, recognise that the resources to tackle such problems are finite and need to be applied where they are most likely to be effective.
		Bjorn Lomborg is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute.
		Global Crises,Global Solutions provides a serious, yet accessible, springboard for debate anddiscussion and will be required reading for government employees, NGOs,scholars and students of public policy and applied economics, and anyone with aserious professional or personal interest in global development issues.
	www.akademika.no /vare.php?ean=9780521606141 (649 words)

	VOA News - Danish Economist Stresses Need to Prioritize World’s Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Speaking on VOA News Now’s Press Conference USA, he reiterated that position by arguing that Third World countries, which are disproportionately affected by global warming, have more pressing priorities to deal with such as malnutrition and poverty.
		Lomborg suggests there is a “middle way” that does not overly emphasize protecting the environment at the expense of much-needed economic development.
		Global Crises, Global Solutions grew out of a meeting in Copenhagen in May 2004 known as the “Copenhagen Consensus,” which brought together experts who prioritized and outlined solutions to the above-mentioned problems.
	www.voanews.com /english/NewsAnalysis/2005-02-04-voa20.cfm (607 words)

	CNW Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bjorn Lomborg has challenged widely held doomsday beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse and that human action is to blame.
		His assertion that many scientists and environmentalists were being unduly pessimistic and making claims not based on good science ignited a fierce debate in such publications as the Scientific American.
		Lomborg will discuss his new book, Global Crises, Global Solutions, which proposes action for the "top ten" current global crises: climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, corruption, migration, malnutrition and hunger, trade barriers, and water access.
	www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/January2005/19/c4260.html (345 words)

	Copenhagen Consensus 2004 – addresses 10 major challenges in the world. - Home
		Cambridge University Press has published "Global Crises, Global Solutions" edited by Bjørn Lomborg.
		We are proud that the goal of Copenhagen Consensus has been achieved: a prioritized list of solutions to the world's great challenges.
		Problems and solutions will change over time, so we are looking forward already to Copenhagen Consensus 2008.
	www.copenhagenconsensus.com (256 words)

	Synthstuff - music, photography and more...: Bjorn Lomborg interview in the San Francisco Examiner
		In 2001, Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg enraged the environmental community by publishing his book “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” which claims the planet is not in as dire a condition as many would have us believe.
		He is worth checking out only because the “environmentalists” spit so much vitriol at him.
		He fact-checks them and puts the global experience into perspective and they do not like it (cuts into the grant money ‘ya know…)
	www.synthstuff.com /mt/archives/individual/2005/02/bjorn_lomborg_interview_in_the_san_francisco_examiner.html (2102 words)

	Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› Global Crises, Global Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a set of arguments and data for prioritising our response most effectively.
		Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert who defines the scale of the problem and describes the costs and benefits of a range of policy options to improve the situation.
		The complete set of policy proposals is evaluated by eight of the world's top economists - including three Nobel Laureates - from North America, Europe and China, who attempt a ranking of the most promising options.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0521606144.html (738 words)

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