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Cutting waste boosts economies
News, Published on 16/06/2015
» Almost one-quarter of all food in the world is lost each year, from harvesting and storage to wastage in the consumer's kitchen. In South and Southeast Asia, more than 18% of all food is wasted. If we could halve the South and Southeast Asian waste, we could feed an extra 234 million people.
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How to tackle infectious diseases
News, Published on 28/05/2015
» Ebola has received much of the attention in 2014, and has killed about 8,000 people. In the same period of time, about 4 million people died from Aids, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
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Protecting biodiversity makes for great investments
News, Published on 18/04/2015
» Biodiversity — the range of species we share our planet with — is important, but can we put a value on it? And can we estimate the benefits and costs of conservation? Three new studies for the Copenhagen Consensus suggest that not only can we estimate the costs and benefits for some projects, but also that conservation can be a great investment.
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Time for viable goals, not slogans
News, Published on 06/04/2015
» Corruption last year cost the world more than one trillion dollars. That is a trillion dollars we can't use to get better health care, education, food and environments. And corruption is only part of the problem of poor governance — many countries are run ineffectively, lacking accountability, transparency and rule of law.
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Migration, contraception can solve population woes
News, Published on 26/02/2015
» There was a time when we worried about a "population explosion", with ever more people fighting over ever fewer resources. Yet the population growth has decreased since the late 1960s, and resources have not run out.
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Education, health top Thai priorities
News, Published on 20/02/2015
» If you could come up with goals for the world to aspire to over the next 15 years, what would they be? What should we focus on?
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