2014-03-20 It's time to retire the myth that Bt cotton is to blame for farmer suicides in India.

2014-03-17 Germany is a showcase for how-not-to in green energy. It is pumping hundreds of billions of euros into subsidies for ineffective and unreliable solar panels and wind turbines that leave poor people struggling to pay their electricity bills and do almost nothing for the climate. 

2014-03-17 MIAMI – According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, “Climate change harms the poor first and worst.” This is true, because the poor are the most vulnerable and have the least resources with which to adapt. But we often forget that current policies to address global warming make energy much more costly, and that this harms the world’s poor much more. Read the article online. 

Børsen, Denmark. 

Talfægteren Bjørn Lomborg taler de fattiges sag, og Vestas-filosoffen Morten Albæk appellerer til vores sunde fornuft. Er der nye boller på suppen? Ikke nødvendigvis. Men i lyset af rapporten fra Det Miljøøkonomiske Råd må vi se debatørerne og deres dagsordener i et nyt lys.

Debatten om den grønne omstilling har denne uge atter kørt livligt i Børsen blandt andet med kronikker fra de to førnævnte herrer. Men rollerne har ændret sig.

Bjorn Lomborg gave a speech at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusettes on 24 February 2014. The talk, entitled "Prioritizing Our Greatest Problems Versus Prioritizing Our Efforts to Find Solutions," discussed the smartest ways to tackle today's most pressing global issues. 

According to WPI, "the University Lecture Series provides a forum for speakers of national and international importance to enhance scholarly and scientific learning and to stimulate the intellectual climate of the university and surrounding communities."