How Better Nutrition for Children Helps Solve Two of the World’s Biggest Problems
By Bjørn Lomborg Over the past two weeks, I have challenged Slate readers to decide what priority to give competing ways to help the... view |
The Expert Panel Findings
The goal of Copenhagen Consensus 2012 was to set priorities among a series of proposals for confronting ten great global challenges. A panel of economic experts, comprising some of the world’s most distinguished economists, was invited to consider these issues. The ten challenge papers, commissioned from acknowledged authorities in each area of policy, included nearly 40 proposals for the panel’s... view |
Slate: To Educate Children, We Have To Teach Their Parents
By Bjørn Lomborg Over the past 50 years, remarkable progress has been made ensuring that children receive basic education. More than 60 percent of adults in low-income... view |
Slate: War Is a Long, Messy Hell
By Bjørn Lomborg Without peace and stability, there are impediments to solving every other challenge that we have looked at in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 series. Armed conflict is a major global problem that... view |
Slate: Can You Really Make Clouds Whiter and More Reflective?
Can You Really Make Clouds Whiter and More Reflective? By Bjørn Lomborg Of all of the issues in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 project, climate change is perhaps the most talked-about and charged. Although efforts to strike... view |
Slate: We Still Need to Save the Rain Forests
We Still Need to Save the Rain Forests Biodiversity efforts are often targeted toward saving cute animals. But the real problem is disappearing forests, wetlands, and mangroves. By Bjørn Lomborg ... view |
Slate CC12: An Ounce of Prevention ...
An Ounce of Prevention ... By Bjørn Lomborg ... view |
Interview with Lomborg on Folha.com
Without innovation, we'll never solve global warming - says the author of The Sceptical Environmentalist. ('Sem inovação, nunca resolveremos o aquecimento global', diz autor de 'O Ambientalista Cético') Bjorn Lomborg gave an interview to Folha, a Brazilian newspaper. ... view |
Slate CC12: The Thorny Issue of Population Growth
The Thorny Issue of Population Growth Last year, the world population reached 7 billion. It added the last billion in merely 12 years... view |
Slate CC12: Developing the Smartphone of Toilets
Developing the Smartphone of Toilets The story of water and sanitation is one of success and failure. The world has met the Millennium Development Goal on the provision of clean drinking water five years... view |
Slate CC12: Malaria Is Making a Comeback
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Slate CC12: The High Cost of Heart Disease and Cancer
The High Cost of Heart Disease and Cancer Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer are problems that we associate with rich countries, while... view |
Slate CC12: How To Get Food on Every Table
How To Get Food on Every Table The problem of hunger can be solved. The planet creates more than enough food to meet everyone’s needs. But there are still about 925 million hungry... view |
Slate Copenhagen Consensus 2012: Big Problems, Big Solutions
Big Problems, Big Solutions By Bjørn Lomborg COPENHAGEN—This decade has seen remarkable progress against humanity’s greatest challenges... view |
Article by Lomborg in The Wall Street Journal
An Economic Approach to the Environment April 23, 2012 by Bjorn Lomborg view |
Lomborg interview on Frank Beckmann show
NewsTalk April 18, 2012. ... view |
Lomborg op-ed: The Problem of Priorities
Project Syndicate, Apr. 13, 2012by Bjorn Lomborg. COPENHAGEN – This decade has seen remarkable progress against humanity’s greatest challenges. Consider the declaration of victory over polio in India, which seemed impossible ten years ago. January marked one year since the country’s last reported case. Or look at the strides... view |
Interview with Lomborg on BBC radio The World Tonight
BBC The World Tonight Apr 9, 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight view |
Lomborg comments on the Energiaftale / Danish Energy AgreementBjorn Lomborg comments on the Energyaftale / Danish Energy Agreement, can be read in English and in Danish in the attached file. DK |
Lomborg op-ed: Gone With the Wind
COPENHAGEN – Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy. As a result, the use of wind turbines has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with wind power often touted as the most cost-effective green opportunity. According to Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action... view |
Lomborg participates in the How the Light Gets In philosophy festival
Lomborg participates in the How the Light Gets In philosophy festival on June 2, 2012 The World in Our Hands Polly Higgins, Crispin Tickell, Nigel Lawson, Bjorn Lomborg The future of humanity is at stake. There is nothing to worry about. What is it about the debate between... view |
Lomborg in HLN: Jane Velez Mitchell
Lomborg is on air on CNN Issues With Jane Velez Mitchell, 7pm ET on March 6.
Int BL 2012-03-06 CNN Velez-Mitchell.pdf view |
Interview with Lomborg on CBC Ideas
HOST: Max Allen This is a two hour series, one hour each of the nights of March 12 and March 19. If you want to hear the shows LIVE TO AIR (as they are being broadcast across Canada): |
Interview with Lomborg on CBC Ideas
HOST: Max Allen This is a two hour series, one hour each of the nights of March 12 and March 19. If you want to hear the shows LIVE TO AIR (as they are being broadcast across Canada): |
Lomborg on the John Oakley Show
Febr 23, 2012. Bjorn and John discuss the solar and wind projects in Europe. The John Oakley Show - Talk Radio AM640 |
Interview with Lomborg on Talk Radio 702 Cape Town
Talk Radio 702 - The Best Of Jenny Crwys Williams 2012-02-20 |
Lomborg op-ed: Germany’s Sunshine Daydream
www.project-syndicate.org COPENHAGEN – One of the world’s biggest green-energy public-policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere. Germany once prided itself on being the... view |
Lomborg's article in NATO review: Climate, disease and food - a lot still to do
NATO Review » 2012 security predictions » Climate, disease and food - a lot still to do. Climate, disease and food - a lot still to do In 2012, the issue that we make the least progress on – but lament at length about – will remain global warming. Campaigners will continue to use doomsday language to try to hustle for... view |
Lomborg interviewed at the Monica Crowley Show
Febr 11, 2012 (recorded on Febr 9 Thu) |
Lomborg on Stossel: Whom can you trust?
Whom can you trust? ... view |
Lomborg on Varney & Co.
Fox Business Editor's PicksGlobal Warming: True or False? |
Lomborg at World Future Energy Summit
World Future Energy Summit 2012 Jan 16, 2012 Dr. Lomborg gave a 15 minute talk to the plenary between the three ministerial panels. |
Lomborg's talk at Univeristy of Calgary, Jan 26
ISEEE Distinguished Speaker Series "Cool It: Effectively Addressing Climate Change," by Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist “Cool It: Effectively Addressing Climate Change” |
Lomborg op-ed: The Emperor’s New Climate-Change Agreement
2012-01-10 The Emperor’s New Climate-Change Agreement COPENHAGEN – Dressing up failure as victory has been integral to climate-change negotiations since they started 20 years ago. The latest round of talks in Durban, South Africa, in December was no exception. Climate negotiations have been in virtual limbo ever since the... view |
Lomborg interview in Tehelka magazine India
End of Kyoto would mean nothing for the climate Dec 24, 2011 Q: You are known to be critical of the Kyoto Protocol. Does the Durban agreement offer more hope than Kyoto? A: There’s virtually nothing but empty promises. The Kyoto Protocol will be a symbolic act to continue. As for the Green Climate Fund, they... view |
Lomborg op-ed in Wall Street Journal: Global Warming and Adaptability
Wall Street Journal Global Warming and Adaptability By BJORN LOMBORG The Durban pit-stop in the endless array of climate summits has just ended, and predictably it reaffirmed the United Nations' strong... view |
Lomborg interview in AkzoNobel magazine
2011-Dec-10 Is global warming just a load of hot air? Climate change is clearly a burning issue, but who to believe? We spoke to three experts with differing views on the subject in an effort to determine what’s really going on. Words: Jim Wake According to Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist on the... view |
Lomborg named Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy "for looking more right than ever on the politics of climate change"
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers Bjorn Lomborg With international action on limiting... view |
Lomborg op-ed at Financial Times: Global warming needs a more innovative solution
For a considerable time, it has been claimed that we must fix climate change immediately or all will be lost. As long ago as 1989, the director of the United Nations environment programme stated: "We shall win - or lose - the climate struggle in the first years of the 1990s. The issue is as urgent as that." ...... view |
Lomborg op-ed in USA Today: Government shouldn't be picking Solyndras
The lesson from the federal government's failed backing of Solyndra is not that the United States should abandon energy innovation. It is that the government should not try to pick industry winners in the race to replace fossil fuels with an alternative. Solyndra is the now-bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer that received a $535 million federal loan... view |
Lomborg op-ed in The Australian: Carbon tax a costly feel-good gesture that won't reduce emissions
Bjorn Lomborg GLOBAL warming is real, man-made and important, but the present response has not worked for 20 years, won't work now and won't solve it in the future. This is especially true for Australia, which has introduced a carbon tax that will not work, while stifling debate... view |
Lomborg op-ed: Seeming Green at Project Syndicate
2011-11-14 |
Voice of America article about RethinkHIV
Some of the world’s top economists have gotten together to take a new look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and see whether money can be better spent. It’s called the RethinkHIV project and includes three Nobel Laureates. The Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation sponsored the panel of... view |
Lomborg op-ed in USA Today: Government shouldn't be picking Solyndras
Solyndra is the now-bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer that received a $535 million federal loan guarantee in 2009 to build a factory based on the proposition that solar... view |
Lomborg op-ed: Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count
NEW YORK – It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight. Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist. Funding from developed governments is dropping – a trend that must be reversed. But we also need to... view |
Lomborg op-ed: Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count
Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count NEW YORK – It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight. Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist. Funding from developed governments is... view |
Article by Lomborg and Piot in the Wall Street Journal
BY BJØRN LOMBORG AND PETER PIOT After a decade of unprecedented increases in donor funding and a corresponding 17% decline world-wide in the number of new infections, the fight against HIV is... view |
Lomborg's op-ed: Rethinking the Fight against HIV
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Lomborg named as one of 58 people who have changed our lives in 2011
Psychologies Nominated by Julian Baggini, philosopher and author of The Ego Trick. |
Interview with Lomborg on CNBC
Politicians are incentivised to announce emission targets and solar panel installations rather than commitments to scientific research. Bjørn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, argues that this means we are wasting large sums of money on reducing carbon emissions by only a few tonnes rather than... view |
How Better Nutrition for Children Helps Solve Two of the World’s Biggest Problems
September 29, 2011
The lesson from the federal government's failed backing of Solyndra is not that the United States should abandon energy innovation. It is that the government should not try to pick industry winners in the race to replace fossil fuels with an alternative.
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