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End fossil fuel subsidies
Venezuela recently increased the price of gas 60-fold. But subsidies still costs the state almost $30 billion. This would be much better spent on smarter priorities such as health, food and education.
The Boston Globe article was also published throughout Latin America, e.g. in Venezuela (El Universal), Chile (La Tercera) and Argentina (InfoBAE).
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Are electric cars really green?
Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars?
Watched by 700,000+, this new video produced with PragerU shows how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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When is fighting corruption worth it?
Some $1 trillion was lost to corruption last year. But typically we don't know how to fix poor governance.
However, some solutions can work. Providing legal identity for all could be a worthwhile target in the fight against corruption, laying the ground for an emerging administrative competence in many countries.
  
Read Bjorn Lomborg's column for Project Syndicate in five languages. It was published by newspapers around the world, including Philippine Daily Inquirer, Addis Fortune (Ethiopia) and Los Tiempos (Bolivia).
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The Paris climate deal won’t even dent global warming
The Paris climate agreement was praised as a diplomatic triumph by climate campaigners in December. Instead, it's a PR coup. In New York Post Lomborg shows how little the treaty will do to reduce actual temperature rises.
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Why Zika and Ebola are not the world’s biggest problems
Bjorn Lomborg recently discussed the results of the Post-2015 Consensus with Saudi Gazette. While Zika and Ebola get a lot of news, the 19 recommendations made by the Copenhagen Consensus Center's Nobel Laureate Eminent Panel can be seen as “a shopping list for people and organizations that want to do the most good,†he told the interviewer.
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