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Published in India
With climate summits not yielding the results some rich countries are hoping for, their leaders are now eyeing a new, cynical approach in global climate governance: the rich will set lofty carbon goals and policies to promote green energy, including levying carbon tariffs that can bring them profits, but developing countries have to pay the bill.
Published in China
Such carbon tariffs simply act as back-door protectionism for rich countries. Tragically, they will exacerbate global poverty and deprive the world’s poor of the twin drivers of development, abundant energy and free trade.
Published in South Africa
Developing countries should insist rich countries stop their unjust policies and focus on green energy R&D instead.
Published in Brazil
Lomborg's column was published around the globe, e.g. in the world's largest circulating English language newspaper The Times of India, the largest English language paper in China, China Daily, Brazil's newspaper of record O Globo, South Africa's leading business paper Business Day, Los Angeles Daily News (USA), The Australian, Berlingske (Denmark), Milenio (Mexico), El Universo (Ecuador), El Periodico (Guatemala), Perfil (Argentina), La Tercera (Chile) and many more.
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President Biden at his recent World Leaders Climate Summit made headlines for pledging deep emission cuts until 2030. Yet, his new promises will reduce warming by the end of the century by less than 0.04°C / 0.07°F.
Unfortunately for Biden, he couldn't convince the big emitters of the 21st century to follow his lead. China, India and other developing nations are unwilling to promise new carbon cuts, because they are more focused on development and getting their populations out of poverty. They simply cannot spare trillions for climate policy.
Lomborg writes in a feature article in New York Post that in place of another gabfest, we need to get smarter on climate: if we can innovate future green energy to be cheaper than fossil fuels, everyone will want to switch.
He also discussed Biden's climate summit with Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot on The Journal Editorial Report, with Stuart Varney on Fox Business, and with Chris Smith on Sky News Australia.
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 Prof. Jordan B. Peterson has Bjorn Lomborg back on his popular podcast. In their informative, entertaining and extremely wide-ranging talk, they discuss everything from climate change to fixing the world's many other challenges.
They get into Lomborg's latest book False Alarm* (which Jordan Peterson calls "a data-driven, human-centered antidote to the oft-apocalyptic discussions ... careful, compelling and above all sensible and pragmantic") as well as the 60+ other global solutions outlined in the Copenhagen Consensus cost-benefit analyses — ranging from free trade and family planning to nutrition and malaria prevention.
*As an Amazon Associate Copenhagen Consensus earns from qualifying purchases.
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Today's climate alarmism is the culmination of decades-long eco-anxiety. In 1982, the UN was predicting climate change and other environmental concerns could cause “devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the year 2000. Needless to say, that didn't happen. And while we should certainly care about the planet and its inhabitants, we need to do so smarter and more effectively.
It is also vital to not ignore the big picture: focusing excessively on climate in a world full of problems leaves us poorly prepared for all the other global challenges. The world’s poor still battle with much greater challenges like starvation, poverty, dying from easily curable diseases and lack of education. And these challenges have solutions where each dollar can help much more.
Lomborg's new article for Earth Day was published in newspapers around the globe, including The Telegraph (United Kingdom), National Post (Canada), Borsen (Denmark), Milenio (Mexico), La Tercera (Chile), La Prensa (Nicaragua), Los Tiempos (Bolivia), El Heraldo (Honduras), El Pais (Uruguay) and El Universo (Ecuador).
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Finding the best policies for Malawi
Copenhagen Consensus is partnering with the National Planning Commission of Malawi and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) to find the most effective policy solutions for Malawi. Malawi Priorities will facilitate a prioritization of policy options for the country based on cost-benefit analyses. It will also seek to identify interventions that will enable the government to generate more financial resources to finance its development agenda.
 New research is being released on a regular basis, and you can already read policy briefs and research papers on topics such as agriculture, nutrition, maternal health and HIV/AIDS.
The findings are also shared with the general public through various media channels.
A recent study about agriculatural exports, for example, was widely reported by print and broadcast media in the country.
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