‘Nuclear has a lot going for it while net zero will simply not happen’, says sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lomborg is not your typical environmental thinker. A former Greenpeace activist, he is now frustrated with the state of our climate change debate – calling for constructive solutions rather than apocalyptic predictions.

So what are Lomborg’s solutions? City A.M.’s Michiel Willems finds out.

There is a lot to do about nuclear energy at the moment. What do you think of nuclear power as the future, especially in light of new technology?

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