Get the facts straight
Activists’ tales of doom never pan out, but they leave us poorly informed and feed bad policy.
Published by Third Way
The self-styled 'sceptical environmentalist' Professor Bjørn Lomborg has for years been both extolled and excoriated. As he urges us all to 'cool it', Third Way got smart with him at the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Published by The Telegraph
By refusing to prioritise, the UN ensured none of their goals would succeed
The international development system is in disarray. Aid budgets have been slashed in the UK and abroad, USAID has been gutted, and the development banks like the World Bank divert ever more of their funding to climate even as global poverty reduction has slowed.
Published by Project Syndicate
Environmental protesters and politicians around the world are calling for countries to become carbon neutral by 2050, if not sooner. These proposals get a lot of attention, but they would incur far higher costs than almost any electorate is willing to pay.