Editing Copenhagen Consensus (section)

== Copenhagen Consensus 2008 ==

===Economists===
''[[Nobel Prize]] winners marked with (¤)''
* [[Jagdish Bhagwati]]
* [[François Bourguignon]]
* [[Finn E. Kydland]] (¤)
* [[Robert Mundell]] (¤)
* [[Douglass North]] (¤)
* [[Vernon L. Smith]] (¤)
* [[Thomas Schelling]] (¤)
* [[Nancy Stokey]]

===Results===
In the Copenhagen Consensus 2008, the solutions for global problems have been ranked in the following order:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://copenhagenconsensus.com/copenhagen-consensus-ii/outcomes|title=Outcomes|website=Copenhagen Consensus|accessdate=21 August 2023}}</ref>

# [[Micronutrient]] supplements for children (vitamin A and zinc)
# The [[Doha Development Agenda|Doha development agenda]]
# Micronutrient [[Food fortification|fortification]] (iron and [[Iodised salt|salt iodization]])
# [[Expanded program on immunization|Expanded immunization]] coverage for children
# [[Biofortification]]
# [[Deworming]] and other nutrition programs at school
# Lowering the price of schooling
# Increase and improve girls’ schooling
# Community-based nutrition promotion
# Provide support for women’s reproductive role
# [[Heart attack]] acute management
# [[Malaria]] prevention and treatment
# [[Tuberculosis]] case finding and treatment
# [[R&D]] in [[low-carbon energy]] technologies
# Bio-[[Slow sand filter|sand filters]] for household [[water treatment]]
# Rural [[water supply]]
# [[Conditional Cash Transfer|Conditional cash transfer]]
# [[Peace-keeping]] in post-conflict situations
# [[HIV]] combination prevention
# Total [[sanitation]] campaign
# Improving surgical capacity at district hospital level
# Microfinance
# Improved stove intervention to combat Air Pollution
# Large, multipurpose dam in Africa
# Inspection and maintenance of diesel vehicles
# Low sulfur diesel for urban road vehicles
# Diesel vehicle particulate control technology
# Tobacco tax
# R&D and carbon dioxide emissions reduction
# Carbon dioxide emissions reduction

Unlike the 2004 results, these were not grouped into qualitative bands such as Good, Poor, etc.

[[Gary Yohe]], one of the authors of the global warming paper, subsequently accused Lomborg of "deliberate distortion of our conclusions",<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/22/climatechange.carbonemissions | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Climate change is real, compelling and urgent | first=Gary | last=Yohe | date=2008-08-22 | accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref> adding that "as one of the authors of the Copenhagen Consensus Project's principal climate paper, I can say with certainty that Lomborg is misrepresenting our findings thanks to a highly selective memory". Kåre Fog further pointed out that the future benefits of emissions reduction were [[Discounted Cash Flow|discounted]] at a higher rate than for any of the other 27 proposals,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/CopCons2008.htm|title = Index}}</ref> stating "so there is an obvious reason why the climate issue always is ranked last" in Lomborg's environmental studies.

In a subsequent joint statement settling their differences, Lomborg and Yohe agreed that the "failure" of  Lomborg's emissions reduction plan "could be traced to faulty design".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/01/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange1 | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=It's not about us | first=Björn | last=Lomborg | date=2008-09-01 | accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref>