Get the facts straight
An interview with Lomborg on Cafe Babel
Published by New York Post
This year, the US federal government will spend more than $61 billion in humanitarian aid for the rest of the world.Philanthropists and charitable donors will contribute another $30 billion.Combined, this total is more than any other country, and it helps transform lives in poor countries.But Americans — and everyone else — can do better. Not by spending more, but by spending more smartly.
Despite much hype, the much-vaunted green energy transition away from fossil fuels isn’t happening.
Achieving a meaningful shift with current policies turns out to be unaffordable. We need to drastically change policy direction.
Published by The Spectator
On the sidelines of the 2015 Paris climate summit, then-UK prime minister David Cameron and 19 other world leaders made a promise to double green energy research and development by 2020.
The United Kingdom is on course to break that promise. As a percentage of GDP, spending on low-carbon energy R&D has stayed sluggishly around 0.02 per cent since 2015, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).