Get the facts straight
Check out the interview with Bjørn Lomborg on Ezra Levant's show, from October 9, 2012.
Published by Copenhagen Consensus
Lomborg's Opening Speech at Copenhagen Consensus 2008
Lomborg's Closing Speech at Copenhagen Consensus 2008
Published by Financial Post
The disconnect between the global elite and the real world is growing by the day. Most people are worn down by the pandemic, food and energy price hikes and general inflation, and worried about recession. Yet the chattering classes are jetting into conferences at Davos or Aspen to declare that our biggest and most immediate threats are climate change, environmental disasters and biodiversity loss.
Published by Forbes
Many western donors love the idea that instead of dirty, coal-fired power-plants, poor nations should ‘leapfrog’ straight to cleaner energy sources such as off-grid solar technology. The World Bank is at the forefront of these efforts, no longer funding coal energy projects.
Off-grid solar projects begin with grand intentions, but too often end with recipients barely better off. We can see this in the small Pacific island nation of Fiji, where the government – advocates of strong global climate policy – teamed up with a Japanese technology company to deliver off-grid solar power.