How the energy crisis can be solved

Today, 120 world leaders and 30,000 delegates will start arriving in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate change conference. 

Watching from afar will be Bjorn Lomborg, the former Greenpeace activist who, in his acclaimed 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist, concluded that the costly measures being dreamed up by politicians, scientists and businessmen have proved next to useless. 

Here, he explains why little has changed.

BBC The World Tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight

Apr 9, 2012. Starting at 28:01 min. Reporter: Paul Moss.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldtonight

2013-01-24 Read Bjorn Lomborg's reaction to the description of global warming in President Obama's inaugural address.

Lomborg argues that global warming is indeed a problem that needs fixing. However, exaggerating the threat concentrates resources in the wrong areas and often distracts us from simple, cheaper and smarter solutions.