The High Cost of Green

By Bjorn Lomborg, Thursday, June 26, 2008 The bitter arguments in the Senate this month over the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill, which would have required major emitters to pay for the right to discharge greenhouse gases, proved that climate change caused by humans has come to the fore of U.S. policy debates. (...) 

2013-12-12 Trade-offs are an inherent part of life. We all recognize this from our private budgets. To fix the roof, we may have to accept a less extravagant summer vacation. When we pick a cheaper wine, we can splurge on dessert.  Trade-offs also pervade environmental policy: Cutting more of one pollutant, for example, leaves fewer resources to address other issues. For example, coal is phenomenally polluting, but it also provides for cheap and reliable power, which drives development.

Una de las historias de éxito en materia de desarrollo que más se pasa por alto en estos momentos es que la población sin acceso a la electricidad ha caído por debajo de los mil millones por primera vez desde que se iniciaron los registros. Nuevos datos de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE) muestran que en 2017, 120 millones de personas tuvieron acceso a la electricidad, un número nunca antes alcanzado. https://www.milenio.com/opinion/bjorn-lomborg/columna-bjorn-lomborg/el-acceso-a-la-energia-en-america-latina