Bjorn Lomborg

Tackling poverty through nutrition, health, and education can quickly help hundreds of millions of people live better lives at low cost, says the writer.

The World Bank needs to refocus on poverty

Climate change demands action, but not at the poor’s expense

Middle-class Americans gain an estimated 29% of their purchasing power from foreign trade.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Freer trade still delivers – if we share the gains wisely

The right response to free trade’s downsides is not retreat, but smarter policy that better shares its vast upsides, especially with workers...

If solar and wind really were cheaper, the world’s poorer countries would have an inexpensive way to leapfrog from today’s energy poverty to energy abundance.
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The expensive green delusion

The claim that cheap solar and wind is taking over from fossil fuels is a dangerous, expensive lie

World Bank president Ajay Banga last November warned that climate change was “intertwined” with every challenge. Yet today, he somewhat implausibly tells reporters, “I’m not a climate evangelist”.
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Global leaders should end their flirtation with green virtue-signalling

Shareholders need to ask their companies hard questions about what their climate policies really do for the planet, and what they add...

China, once notorious for its severe pollution, is now actively cleaning up its air and water.

Don’t panic, planet earth is better off than we think

On Earth Day, take a moment to appreciate the remarkable progress made in improving the environment – and acknowledge that a key...

Freezing weather in northern France.
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What climate spending really costs the world

Inefficient climate policy distracts resources and attention from other priorities

A new year offers a fresh opportunity. Instead of trying to do it all, focus first on the interventions that yield the highest ROI for people, the planet and future generations.
PERSPECTIVE

A New Year’s resolution for progress: Focus on what works

AS WE close out the past year and look ahead to 2025, the holiday season is a time when we reflect on...

Vehicles transferring coal in China. Over the past decade and even just last year, fossil fuel energy has increased twice as much as green energy.

Expensive climate policy is dead – and it could be an immense opportunity

Innovating the price of green energy below fossil fuels is the only way to get everyone to switch

The main problem is that wealthy countries want to cut emissions while poorer countries mainly want to eradicate poverty through growth that remains largely reliant on fossil fuels.
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The global climate process has lost its way

The focus is now all about financial transfers, when the real challenge is to hasten the day the poorer countries can switch...

FILE PHOTO: A view of the turbines at Orsted's offshore wind farm near Nysted, Denmark, September 4, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Little/File Photo
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The myth of the green energy transition

While solar and wind energy use has increased to their highest-ever levels, consumption of fossil fuels has not declined