U.N. Climate-Change Alarms Cast Little Light on Heat

Una de las historias de éxito en materia de desarrollo que más se pasa por alto en estos momentos es que la población sin acceso a la electricidad ha caído por debajo de los mil millones por primera vez desde que se iniciaron los registros. Nuevos datos de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE) muestran que en 2017, 120 millones de personas tuvieron acceso a la electricidad, un número nunca antes alcanzado. https://www.milenio.com/opinion/bjorn-lomborg/columna-bjorn-lomborg/el-acceso-a-la-energia-en-america-latina

2013-10-14 FOR the past half century, a fundamental debate has raged between optimists and pessimists over the state of the world. Pessimists build their case on overpopulation, starvation and depletion of resources. Optimists stand for the infallibility of the market economy. Wouldn't it be nice to remove the darkened or rose-tinted spectacles for once, and try to quantify how the world really has done and will do in future? I asked some of the world's leading economists to do just that. The result is a groundbreaking book, How Much Have Global Problems Cost The World?

Copenhagen Consensus president slams political leaders for blocking smart environmental concepts that will help alleviate climate pain on 'Varney & Co.'