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Bjorn Lomborg

Climate Fantasies

President Obama promotes both brilliant and useless climate policies. Read Lomborg's oped in USA Today.

The Limits to Panic

Imagine an idyllic past with no air pollution and happy farmers, and a future strangled by belching smokestacks. Reality is entirely the reverse.

Since the 70's our obsession with doom-and-gloom scenarios has distracted us from the real global threats. Poverty still accounts for at least 25% of all deaths, and the cure for poverty is more, not less economic growth.

The commentary is published in newspapers around the world, read it in seven languages on Project Syndicate.

The World's Best Option?

The vast majority of the world's people would benefit from free trade. The annual benefit could exceed $5,000 billion annually by 2020, with half going to the developing world.

The US and the EU should get farmers off subsidies and open their markets. We could help the world's poor, and help ourselves, if we just muster the courage.

Read the op-ed on Huffington Post

FAO Reports

Food and Agriculture 2013

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization quotes Copenhagen Consensus research in their flagship annual report. Read more here.

Affordable Actions

Sun News prime time show "The Source with Ezra Levant" (Canada) featured a full one-hour show with Lomborg

Ezra Levant interviewed Lomborg on his new book, clean affordable energy and affordable solutions to solve the worldâ€™s environmental problems.

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How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
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NYC Climate Adaptation

A step in the right direction

After inaccurately blaming global warming for superstorm Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg's new focus on adaptation is the right thing to do. Much of the damage was a result of huge developments that left the city more vulnerable.

Safeguarding Manhattan against future flooding is almost entirely about adaptation -- reestablished wetlands, tidal barriers, safeguards for the subway -- and not about cutting COâ‚‚, as Lomborg explains in this video.

Meanwhile, Al Gore deplores that science can't tie tornadoes to global warming.

Money against Malnutrition

The "Nutrition for Growthâ€ summit in London secured commitment for Â£2.7 billion, the top outcome from the Copenhagen Consensus. Every pound spent could do Â£59 worth of good.

The NGO coalition InterAction has pledged $750 million, partly on the basis of the recommendations from the Copenhagen Consensus.

In the German newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and taz, Lomborg explains how investments to combat malnutrition among children have knock-on effects throughout life - children avoid stunting, learn more in school and eventually get better paid jobs.
Also available in Spanish in El Pais and Prensa Libre.

Top Climate Think Tank

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About Bjorn Lomborg and the Copenhagen Consensus Center

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world, and has repeatedly been named one of Foreign Policyâ€™s top 100 public intellectuals.

He is the author of several best-selling books, an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School and regularly works with many of the worldâ€™s top economists, including seven Nobel Laureates.
His think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center was ranked by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the worldâ€™s "Top 25 Environmental Think Tanks".

Lomborg is frequent commentator in print and broadcast media, for outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, CNN, FOX, and the BBC. His monthly column is published in 19 languages, in 30+ newspapers with more than 30 million readers globally.

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