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This Child Doesn’t Need a Solar Panel
Rich countries and development organizations are diverting aid money to so-called “climate aidâ€, as the Paris climate change conference nears. This means telling the world’s worst-off people, suffering from tuberculosis, malaria or malnutrition, that what they need isn’t medicine, mosquito nets or micronutrients, but a solar panel. In The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Bjorn Lomborg writes that this is immoral.
This was also highlighted in other newspapers like Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden).
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Blowing it on the wind
Many people understandably believe that today's wind turbines and solar panels are a big part of the solution to climate change. But these green energy sources still only represent a tiny share of global energy production, and costs are out of hand. Now governments even have to pay additional subsidies to fossil fuel plants to keep the lights on when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
  
Bjorn Lomborg's new column for Project Syndicate is available in five languages and was published around the world, including in The Australian, Philippine Daily Inquirer, La Nacion (Costa Rica) and Die Welt (Germany).
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Increase spending on food fortification
In an interview with Devex during the first global summit on food fortification, #FutureFortified, hosted by the Tanzanian Government and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in Arusha, Tanzania, Bjorn Lomborg argued that more public money should be spent on the problem of malnutrition. This is one of the smartest ways development money can be used.
Development experts often use Copenhagen Consensus research on nutrition. The CEO of Save the Children Netherlands referred to this in an op-ed for Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant on World Food Day. Bjorn Lomborg's latest article on combating hunger was published throughout Latin America, e.g. in Milenio (Mexico).
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Global free trade deal would help the world's poor
The recently agreed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will create benefits at least 800 times higher than the costs, according to Copenhagen Consensus research by Kym Anderson. But while the TPP deal is great news for the world's poor, what is needed is global free trade. Bjorn Lomborg writes in Canada's National Post that completing the Doha Round could make the world $500 trillion better off by the end of the decade, and lead to 160 million fewer people in poverty by 2030.
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