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For three decades, climate campaigners have fought to make fossil fuels so expensive that people would be forced to abandon them. Their dream is becoming reality: Energy prices are spiraling out of control and will soon get even worse. Yet we are no closer to solving climate change.
In today's New York Post, Lomborg argues that green energy’s failings are why carbon emissions are still increasing. Last year saw the highest global emissions ever. This year is likely to be higher again. Climate policy is broken. By forcing up the price of fossil fuels, policymakers have put the cart in front of the horse. Instead, we need to make green energy much cheaper and more effective.
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The UN recently warned of widespread hunger crises due to Russia's war in Ukraine.
In this article, syndicated around the world, Lomborg lays out what we need to focus on to alleviate this and future food crises, and he also shows how fashionable organics are counter-productive in the fight against global hunger.
You can read the article in Boston Herald (USA), The Globe and Mail (Canada), The Australian, Le Point (France), O Globo (Brazil), Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), Tempi (Italy), Bergens Tidende (Norway) and Daily Graphic (Ghana, print only).
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We've almost reached halftime of the world's Sustainable Development Goals for 2016-30. However, the world is nowhere near halfway to fulfilling its promises. On current trends, even before Covid, the world will only meet its 2030 targets half a century late, in 2078.
High-income countries have seen very little progress and will, on current trends, only achieve their 2030 targets in the second half of the next century. On the other hand, one country that is doing comparatively well is India. With the current pace, India would achieve its 2030 goals in 2059.
Together with Bibek Debroy, chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, and Aditya Sinha, Lomborg wrote an op-ed for India's Economic Times newspaper.
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We need to be honest about the tremendous cost of the net zero target. Censoring this information (as the White House seems to suggest) will be terrible both for public discourse and taxpayers' wallets.
Bjorn Lomborg discussed the latest climate censorship ideas as well as Biden's national climate advisor making absurd claims about "billions of human beings across the world every year dying because it is related to climate or fossil fuels" in an interview with Dana Perino on FOX News.
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In every country, the main role of the government is to prioritize policy options and investments. Hopefully, these policies will deliver the greatest benefit for each dollar spent.
Copenhagen Consensus has successfully introduced a rational, data-driven input to countries’ priority-setting in many countries, including Bangladesh, Haiti, India, Ghana and Malawi in recent years. More countries could benefit from cost-benefit analysis in their quest to fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals, which reach their halfway mark by the end of this year.
Lomborg writes in the Philippines' newspaper of record, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, that data from economic science can help politicians and their officials pick more of the really effective programs and slightly fewer of the less so, to maximize social returns for every dollar spent.
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A new UN report warns that disasters will get much worse and have killed many more people in recent years. In an op-ed for newspapers around the globe, Lomborg warns to treat the report with caution:
"Astonishingly, the UN is misusing data, and its approach has been repeatedly shown to be wrong. Its finding makes for great headlines—but it just isn’t grounded in evidence. (...) Climate-related disasters kill 99% fewer people than 100 years earlier."
Still, the UN manages to give the impression that such disasters are ever more deadly by lumping COVID-19 deaths in with those from hurricanes and floods. This inappropriately seems designed to create headlines rather than understanding.
Read the article in New York Post (USA), City AM (United Kingdom), Financial Post (Canada), Business Day (South Africa), Berlingske (Denmark), Tempi (Italy), The Australian, Finmag (Czech Republic), Capital (Ethiopia, print only), Milenio (Mexico), El Tiempo (Colombia), La Tercera (Chile), La Prensa (Nicaragua) and El Periodico (Guatemala).
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 Bjorn Lomborg's bestselling book False Alarm* is now available in more than a dozen languages, including German, Czech, Chinese, Norwegian, and many more.
The book has also been published in Spanish, and Lomborg recently discussed his findings with prominent Mexican journalist Sergio Sarmiento on TV Azteca.
*As an Amazon Associate Copenhagen Consensus earns from qualifying purchases.
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