Copenhagen Consensus is based on the aim to improve prioritization of limited means. The world is faced with a countless number of challenges such as diseases, environmental degradation, armed conflicts and financial instability. Copenhagen Consensus takes a new and critical-analytical approach to assessing the effects of international opportunities for solving the challenges. (Public Policy)

Denmark's [Environmental Assessment Institute] (headed by Bjorn Lomborg), together with [The Economist]

http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/

http://www.economist.com/copenhagenconsensus

It has been strongly criticised by NGO-s such as Oxfam for drawing attention away from the existing consensus built up over several years and codified in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Copenhagen_Consensus

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/7/23496/47566

The 10 areas of challenge (International Development), with principal authors:

• Climate change, by [William Cline] of the Centre for Global Development.

• Communicable diseases, by [Anne Mills] of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

• Armed conflicts, by [Paul Collier] of Oxford University.

• Education, by [Lant Pritchett] of the Kennedy School.

• Financial instability, by [Barry Eichengreen] of the University of California, Berkeley.

• Governance and corruption, by [Susan Rose Ackerman] of Yale University.

• Malnutrition and hunger, by [Jere Behrman] of the University of Pennsylvania.

• Population and migration, by [Philip Martin] of the University of California, Davis.

• Sanitation and water, by [Michael Hanemann] of the University of California, Berkeley.

• Subsidies and trade barriers, by [Kym Anderson] of the University of Adelaide

conclusions: z2004-05-28- Copenhagen Consensus Live

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