Bjorn Lomborg visited New York to attend the 12th session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals in conjunction with the Post-2015 Consensus project. He shared Copenhagen Consensus cost-benefit analysis on the UN's development targets with UN Ambassadors from France, Russia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Iceland, Malawi, Micronesia, Tonga, Palau, South Korea, Benin, and Sri Lanka. To find out more about the Post-2015 Consensus and Lomborg's visits to the UN, you can read his latest op-ed at Project Syndicate at the link below.

Bjorn Lomborg is featured in two new videos on Gates Notes. In the pieces, Lomborg addresses the issue of energy poverty and argues that the world's poor need better access to cheap fuels, including fossil fuels. Gates states that "...we should be investing dramatically more money in R&D to make fossil fuels cleaner and make clean energy cheaper than any fossil fuel." Find the videos and commentary from Bill Gates at the link below.

Bjorn Lomborg delivered a talk, entitled "Prioritizing Our Greatest Problems Versus Prioritizing Our Efforts to Find Solutions", to WPI on February 24. You can find information on the talk, as well as pictures from the appearance, at the link below.

How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World? A Scorecard from 1900 - 2050 is the new book edited by Bjorn Lomborg and featuring research from some of the world's top economists. The new volume compares ten global problems on a comparative scale, calculating GDP losses for issues such as air pollution, malnutrition, gender inequality, and more.

Cool It is a groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply-which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over climate change has stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent.