Copenhagen Consensus
Copenhagen Consensus addresses major challenges in the world. The purpose is to prioritize opportunities for solving these challenges by cost and benefit. This ranking is meant to serve as a guideline for decision-makers all over the world.
Ten challenges representing some of the world's biggest concerns have been identified.
In Copenhagen, nine outstanding acknowledged economic experts will gather to discuss, analyze and rank the opportunities corresponding to each challenge. In support, ten specialists have each prepared a background paper on a challenge within their field of research in order to provide the experts with the best and most recent information. Copenhagen Consensus will take place 24-28 May 2004.
And as things form up let's stay tuned and talk about it here. The following have already started to do just that.
Your views, reactions, ideas and suggestions? Including for what next?
The Copenhagen Consensus is a three month brainstorming exercise posing some of the world's leading economic thinkers some very awkward questions about sustainable development priorities in a world of limited resources.
Since a fair amount of money is being poured into this exercise and since the intellectual resources are not trivial, it is worth our time as proponents of sustainability who owe nothing to anybody or anything other than the truth, to try to understand the approach, accomplishments and eventual limitations of this drill. This section of our site is intended to provide some elements of a balanced critical understanding what this is all about, and what it may eventually mean or lead to. (The following section is extracted directly from the Copenhagen Consensus web site.)
The entire Copenhagen exercise 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.
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Both Internetcommentator Blog and the John Quiggin Commentary open up an interesting possilbity, wehreby not only can you follow these independent discussions of the CC, but you can also check in with your own comments, etc. Check them out.
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