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Around the world, thousands of children are striking for climate action. Spurred on by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, they want to convince adults to “panic”. But this global groundswell of energy ought to be redirected to achieve more for humanity and the planet.
 In USA Today, Lomborg argues that rather than doubling down on the failed approaches to tackle climate change, "school strikers should call out the grown-ups using silly rhetoric to promote fantastically costly and ineffective solutions and instead insist on smarter ones. And they should double down on their studies to be part of the generation that will find vaccines for malaria, tackle hunger, fight cancer, while also innovating green energy to make it so cheap it eventually undercuts fossil fuels and fixes climate change for good."
 The article was syndicated in many other countries and languages, including publications such as Die Welt (Germany), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), Milenio (Mexico), El Comercio (Peru), Los Tiempos (Bolivia), La Prensa (Nicaragua) and El Universo (Ecuador).
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Why we all need to cool down about global warming
Decades of climate-change exaggeration in the West have produced frightened children, febrile headlines, and unrealistic political promises. The world needs a cooler approach that addresses climate change smartly without scaring us needlessly and that pays heed to the many other challenges facing the planet.
Read Bjorn Lomborg's new column for Project Syndicate six languages. The article was published by media outlets around the world, including Shanghai Daily (China), Berlingske (Denmark), Interest (New Zealand), The Daily Star (Lebanon), New Times (Rwanda) and Jornal de Negocios (Portugal).
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Are more and more people dying as a result of climate change? Such claims from climate campaigners might make for good headlines, but they are wrong. In fact, over the past 100 years, climate-related deaths have decreased some 95% because our increased wealth and adaptive capacity have vastly outdone any negative impact from climate when it comes to human climate vulnerability.
On the FOX News prime time program Tucker Carlson Tonight, Lomborg explains why we shouldn't fall for climate hysteria and what smart solutions to climate change could look like.
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 In setting out a plan to make Manhattan better prepared for extreme weather, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is delivering a sorely needed message on climate change.
Usually when extreme weather like a hurricane hits, we hear the same old calls for drastic carbon cuts. Yet these are both ineffective and hopeless at helping victims of hurricanes.
In New York Post, Lomborg argues that adaptation actions, like building flood walls, grassy berms and removable storm barriers, mean we’re better prepared — both today and for whatever climate change may send our way.
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The impact of domestic violence is vast, with costs for victims and society at large. New evidence for India Consensus points to additions that could be made to policies, by any government, to help reduce this cost and turn the tide on violence.
Two solutions studied - empowerment and education via self-help groups; and community mobilization - were both found to be highly cost effective. Besides the clear and important value of avoiding women pain, fear and stress — and, indeed, saving lives — this would also lead to greater economic output since a typical episode of domestic violence means a woman has to stop working for more than five days, as Lomborg explains in Hindustan Times.
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 New research undertaken by India Consensus squarely places TB treatment among the top investments that India can make in order to help achieve the UN’s Global Goals.
As Lomborg explains in Deccan Herald, there are two reasons why TB treatment ranks so high. Firstly, the costs of treatment are generally cheap, and the cure rate is near 90%. In other words, spending relatively little money today can save a life. Secondly and more importantly, because TB is a contagious disease, identifying and treating a patient today can reduce the number of onward infections. This means more lives saved, less health expenditure in the future, or both. Every rupee spent on TB prevention achieves more than Rs 100 of benefits.
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Research for the India Consensus project also shows that the introduction of more electronic market places for food and agri-commodities could be a phenomenal investment in the area of agriculture in India.
Instead of dealing only with local traders in the farmers’ market, a farmer can theoretically buy and sell with the entire country. This improves prices because farmers have more people to sell to, and avoids farmers getting taken advantage of by unscrupulous local traders, because they can see all the prices across the electronic market.
Lomborg writes in India's largest business newspaper, The Economic Times, that even with pessimistic assumptions, every rupee spent on such e-markets could yield 65 rupees worth of benefits to society.
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We’re constantly being told how renewables are close to taking over the world. We’re told they are so cheap they’ll undercut fossil fuels and reign supreme pretty soon. That would be nice. Unfortunately, it is also mostly an illusion. This short video shows why renewables are not likely to take over the world anytime soon.
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