Lomborg's op-ed: Smarter Thinking on Climate Change

Sophie Elmhirst Published 24 September 2010 NS: You started life as a statistician. What sparked your interest in the environment? BL: I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. 

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says we waste money in the fight against climate change.

Op-ed by Bjørn Lomborg in Project Syndicate.

The Doha meeting continued 20 years of failed climate negotiations, since the original Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. There, countries pledged to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000; the OECD countries fell short by almost 9%. The Kyoto Protocol from 1998 has almost entirely failed. And the effort intended to save the world in Copenhagen in 2009 collapsed spectacularly.