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The environmental success story no one talks about
By Bjorn Lomborg - Apr 24,2025
It is tempting to believe that the world is on the brink of environmental collapse. We are constantly inundated by dire predictions of climate catastrophe and warnings about the planet's imminent destruction. But this is misleading.
What climate spending really costs the world
By Bjorn Lomborg - Jan 20,2025
Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, healthcare, and defense. These urgent priorities could easily require an additional 3-6 per cent of GDP.
Expensive climate policy is dead — and it could be an immense opportunity
By Bjorn Lomborg - Nov 26,2024
 The latest climate summit has been as hypocritical and dysfunctional as everyone before, with most world leaders not even bothering to turn up. Still, 50,000 people flew in from across the world, while essentially telling the rest of us to stop flying.
Unrealistic demands overshadow UN Climate Summit
By Bjorn Lomborg - Nov 13,2024
 The UN climate summit in Azerbaijan is happening in the shadow of Donald Trump’s election, and many key leaders will not even show up.
The education policy that could make a difference
By Bjorn Lomborg - Oct 27,2024
Kids’ educational test scores are a major cause for concern across the world.
The world’s biggest killer that you never considered
By Bjorn Lomborg - Jun 30,2024
Some of the world’s big challenges get a lot of attention. Climate change, war and immigration are constantly in the news and receive large funding from states and private philanthropies.
Raiding development funding for climate
By Bjorn Lomborg - Feb 22,2024
Too many rich-world politicians and climate campaigners forget that much of the world remains mired in poverty and hunger. Yet, rich countries are increasingly replacing their development aid with climate spending.
For 2024, let us resolve not only to help more, but to help better
By Bjorn Lomborg - Dec 31,2023
As we set resolutions to achieve personal goals and give back, the end of the year is a time to envision the positive changes we can bring to the world in the upcoming twelve months.
World leaders need to prioritise best things first
By Bjorn Lomborg - Sep 25,2023
The world is failing on its development promises. These are known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed by all governments in 2015 to be achieved by 2030.
How to resist the alarmist climate narrative
By Bjorn Lomborg - Aug 29,2023
 As surely as temperatures rise during the summer, climate alarmism serves up more stories of life-threatening heat domes, apocalyptic fires and biblical floods, all blamed squarely on global warming.

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