|
|
|
|
Why Africa needs fossil fuels
Africa is the world's most "renewable" continent when it comes to energy. But it's far from a good thing: most of this is wood or cow manure, meaning heavy pollution that claims 1.3m lives each year. The continent remains energy-poor. Today's green energy is still too expensive and Africa needs cheap power from fossil fuels to escape poverty.
Read Bjorn Lomborg's column for Project Syndicate in five languages. It was published by newspapers around the world, including Australian Financial Review, New Vision (Uganda), La Nacion (Costa Rica) and The Jakarta Post (Indonesia).
|
|
Copenhagen Consensus one of the world's top think tanks
The University of Pennsylvania asked more than 4,750 journalists, policymakers, donors and scholars to rank the world's best think tanks in 2015.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center is once again acknowledged as a global and environmental think tank, and its campaign for smarter prioritization of the UN's development goals was voted one of the globe's top-20 advocacy campaigns, alongside NGOs that have 100-times larger budgets. You can support the Center's work by donating here.
|
|
Are wind and solar energy already competitive?
Since the 1970s we have heard that solar and wind will need just a few more years of subsidies to be competitive. They still aren't, as Bjorn Lomborg shows in Huffington Post. A new study shows that if subsidies were to be phased out by 2020, the renewable industry would drop off a cliff. The IEA points out that even in 2040, renewables will be costlier than any other energy.
|
|
Discussing global priorities in Chile
 Bjorn Lomborg visited Chile to speak at the Congress of the Future with other thought leaders. He also met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and gave interviews to Spanish newswire EFE, Cooperativa, W-Radio and the country's newspaper of record, El Mercurio.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
