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After 20 wasted years
The UN Climate Conference in Warsaw predictably failed to agree on a treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions. But Japan shows the way: It will more than triple global green R&D.
  
This could be the global climate breakthrough: the Japanese government gives up on climate targets but will spend $110 billion over five years for innovation in environmental and energy technologies.
Read more in Britain's The Times and The Australian. Same arguments can be read in Danish (Berlingske), Dutch (De Tijd, Belgium), German (Die Welt), Hungarian (Napi Gazdaság), Norwegian (Bergens Tidenede), Spanish (La Tercera, Chile) and Swedish (Svenska Dagbladet).
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We can cut emissions
but not with inefficient renewable subsidies
  
Prior to the Warsaw summit, Lomborg appealed for smarter climate solutions. Spain now spends almost 1 per cent of its GDP on subsidies for renewables – more than on higher education. And with virtually no climate impact. Read more in London's City A.M., Canada's National Post, Latin American business magazine Estrategia & Negocios, French business magazine La Tribune and German The European.
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Japan might fix the climate
 Lomborg debated Japan's new R&D-driven approach on BBC Radio 4's flagship program Today. On the same topic, in German, an extensive interview with Austrian daily Der Standard.
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Energy Subsidies
facts and fiction
When inefficient green subsidies are criticized, their defenders can be relied on to point out that the world subsidizes fossil fuels even more.
This is mostly incorrect. Read Lomborg in Wall Street Journal, debunking three popular myths about fossil-fuel subsidies. We should not subsidize fossil fuels or green energy.
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Haiyan Not About Global Warming, But Poverty
 The recent Typhoon Haiyan was terrible. Hitting the Philippines, it killed thousands, because of poverty: flimsy houses that were swept away, inadequate shelters and poor planning. But while there are many good arguments for cutting CO2 effectively, hurricanes are not one of them, as Lomborg points out in USA Today. If we want to help victims of extreme weather, it is all about poverty, not CO2 cuts.
The number of strong hurricanes around the Philippines have dropped since 1951. Even after Haiyan, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy of all cyclones in the Western North Pacific is below normal.
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The Climate-Policy Trap
Current climate policies are often inefficient in concept, but politicians seem to insist on making them even worse in practice.
The EU's 20-20 strategy is a prime example: bad policy made it 3 times more expensive than it needs be. One example: when Great Britain installs a wind turbine, it becomes cheaper to burn coal in Portugal or Poland.
Lomborg's latest Project Syndicate commentary is available in six languages and published in newspapers around the world.
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Bush Fires are Misused as Climate Argument
 
Al Gore and many others blamed the bushfires on global warming.
But the latest peer-reviewed study on global fire tells a very different story.
Expensive and ineffective carbon cuts won't help bushfires. Smarter forest management will. Read more in The Australian.
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Stop the Scaremongering
On Australia's breakfast program Weekend Sunrise, Lomborg argues that we need less scaremongering in the climate debate.
 The policies seen in Australia and around the world to fix global warming are economically inefficient and unsustainable, Lomborg argues on Australia's number one talk station 2GB. Money News and Miranda Devine (starts at 22:53)
 The problem is that we're trying to subsidize existing, inefficient green energy like solar panels, that are right now still not efficient enough, Lomborg explained on The World Today on ABC Radio National.
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