Lomborg about Earth Day - on MSNBC

2012-07-16 Die Idee, "grüne" Indikatoren ins BIP mit einzubeziehen, ist gefährlich. Auch wenn die grüne Buchführung sicher eine Rolle spielen kann, dürfen wir nicht zulassen, dass sie die Entwicklung blockiert.  

30 Jan, 2012 in Bloomberg Briefs

Interview with Bjørn Lomborg  

Lomborg tells Siobhan Wagner of Bloomberg New Energy Finance there is too much focus on cutting carbon-dioxide and clean-tech subsidy funds would be better spent on research and development.

The suburb of Alajo is about as far from the posh hotels of Paris as you could get. But the bureaucrats and politicians here in France are negotiating a climate treaty to ‘help the world’s poorest’ including billions of dollars of guarantees of "climate aid" to developing nations.

I’ve argued in this blog that this kind of aid isn’t what’s wanted. I’ve pointed to a massive global survey of 8 million people showing that people in the world’s poorest countries rank climate policy last after other policy priorities.