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The alarming thing about climate alarmism
The narrative that the world’s climate is changing from bad to worse is unhelpful alarmism that prevents us from focusing on smart solutions.
Over the past 20 years, well-meaning environmentalists have ramped up the rhetoric and focused only on the bad news to make sure the public understands the importance of climate change. But this approach has distorted our climate conversation, as Bjorn Lomborg explains in his latest video for PragerU.
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Focus on the UN goals that are the best value for money
As politicians gathered in New York to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals, the need to prioritize is clearer than ever. Bjorn Lomborg and Copenhagen Consensus Eminent Panel members Nancy Stokey and Nobel laureate Finn Kydland describe how to achieve this in The Guardian.
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Zeroing in from 169 to 19 targets
Bjorn Lomborg discussed with Wall Street Journal's Mary Kissel the importance of being smart about spending. Focusing first on the development targets where we can achieve the most could do the same as doubling or quadrupling the aid budget. If we could spend the next 15 years' development budget ($2.5 trillion) in the best possible way, we could do $62.5 trillion more good.
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Setting smarter development goals
At a global level, prioritizing the most impactful targets would include providing access to contraception to every woman, working much harder to prevent childhood malnutrition, and promoting free trade to reduce poverty. At a national or subnational level, however, priorities can be subtly different, as Lomborg explains in Boston Globe.
A Spanish translation of this article was published throughout Latin America, including in El Universal (Venezuela), La Prensa (El Salvador) and La Tercera (Chile).
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Rethinking energy-efficiency policies
Upgrading energy efficiency is a fashionable policy that governments worldwide promote. But real improvements can be very expensive, and most programs yield modest benefits. It would be smarter to focus on different energy policies. Writing for Project Syndicate, Bjorn Lomborg cites Copenhagen Consensus research that shows that each dollar spent on R&D in green energy technologies could produce benefits about four-times higher than subsidies for energy efficiency.
Read Bjorn Lomborg's column for Project Syndicate in five languages. It was published by newspapers around the world, including The Australian, Times of Oman, New Times (Rwana), Hospodarske Noviny (Czech Republic) and La Nacion (Costa Rica).
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Greenpeace’s deadly war on science
Greenpeace should drop its campaign against genetically modified “Golden Rice,†which could help prevent millions of deaths in the developing world, according to 110 Nobel laureates.
In New York Post, Lomborg writes that disregarding the overwhelming scientific evidence on the safety of GMOs can lead to real-world deaths and explains why we should look at Greenpeace's scare campaigns with a healthy dose of skepticism.
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