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Investment priorities for global welfare

Investment priorities for global welfare

Source: Finextra video: Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Consensus Center

Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, was the guest speaker at the corporate social responsibility (CSR) breakfast at Sibos in Vienna. He spoke to Finextra after the presentation to discuss the cost and benefits of microfinance initiatives, ethical investment, carbon trading, and wider CSR priorities.

For further background and critique on the Copenhagen Consensus findings, see this Wikipedia article.

And TED has a longer video with similar material to his Sibos presentation.

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