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How to save the planet (really).
Pollution; ozone depletion; starvation; malnutrition; disease; poverty; illiteracy; wars; corruption; nuclear war.... The list of disasters looming on humanity's horizon will always be long. Sometimes true catastrophes threaten, other hazards are more routine--part of the innate tragedy and variability of life on a dynamic planet.
Individuals, associations, and entire governments have tried to ward off what they perceive as the greatest risks to civilization. Probably the most loudly proclaimed danger today is global warming. In 1998 and 1999, 84 countries signed the Kyoto Protocol designed to limit the global emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse ...
- UN Diplomats Rank Diseases, Water, Hunger and Education at Top of Copenhagen...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 30, 2006 700+ words
...rankings. "The Copenhagen Consensus process provides...director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and chairman...meeting of the Copenhagen Consensus project in 2004...subsidies and trade barriers. At the weekend...
- Assessing global threats.(Copenhagen Consensus Project)
- Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder March 1, 2005 700+ words
...idea behind the Copenhagen Consensus Project was to...Subsidies and Trade Barriers Transport and...The role of the Copenhagen Consensus was to rank its...economists? So, the Copenhagen Consensus Project gathered...
- UN Ambassadors to Analyze, Prioritize Major World Problems Using Copenhagen...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 9, 2006 700+ words
...sponsorship of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and Georgetown...modeled after Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a groundbreaking...subsidies and trade barriers. Dr. Lomborg...The overriding Copenhagen Consensus goal is to render...
- Feeding the hungry; Economics focus.(In the fourth of a series of articles on...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 8, 2004 700+ words
...series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project*, we look at hunger...as a new paper for the Copenhagen Consensus project points out. Jere...most. And then there are trade barriers--put up by rich and poor...
- Putting the world to rights - Copenhagen Consensus.(Setting priorities among...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 5, 2004 700+ words
...weeks The Economist has been following and supporting the Copenhagen Consensus project--an unusual, ambitious and, some have argued...alike: "multilateral and unilateral action to reduce trade barriers and eliminate agricultural subsidies." ("Why so low...
- The stuff of life; Economics focus.(Understanding the global "water...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 15, 2004 700+ words
...fifth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project*, we look at water and...was commissioned as part of the Copenhagen Consensus project, which this column has...and is the approach adopted by the Copenhagen Consensus paper on communicable diseases...
- How do you rank world misery? At Copenhagen Consensus, economists devise a Top...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 28, 2004 700+ words
...bang for the world-aid buck. By the time the weeklong Copenhagen Consensus wraps up Saturday, the panelists are expected to release...exchange of ideas, but critics have charged that the Copenhagen Consensus is a simplistic approach to divining solutions for complex...
- US delays threaten Copenhagen consensus.
- Magazine article from: Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content October 6, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Graeme Davies ANALYSIS: Lack of clear action by the US could hamper progress in key climate talks The introduction of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act into the US Senate by Democratic senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer last week marks the next stage in what appears an almost
