Bjorn Lomborg From: The Australian November 17, 2011 12:00AM

2011-11-14 Seeming Green Bjorn Lomborg

COPENHAGEN – When Denmark’s new government ministers presented themselves to Queen Margrethe II last month, the incoming development minister established his green credentials by rolling up to the palace in a tiny, three-wheeled, electric-powered vehicle. The photo opportunity made a powerful statement about the minister’s commitment to the environment – but probably not the one he intended. (...)  

September 29, 2011 Rethinking HIV from an Economic Viewpoint Joe DeCapua Some of the world’s top economists have gotten together to take a new look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and see whether money can be better spent. It’s called the RethinkHIV project and includes three Nobel Laureates. The Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation sponsored the panel of experts, which presented its findings Wednesday in Washington to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. “It’s essentially a project to try to say, let’s spend money on HIV in the smartest possible way,” said Dr.

Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count Bjørn Lomborg 2011-10-14 NEW YORK – It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight. Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist. Funding from developed governments is dropping – a trend that must be reversed. But we also need to acknowledge that billions of dollars have been spent on well-meaning attempts to save lives, with an alarming lack of high-quality evaluation of how these investments have performed. (...) 

Making HIV/AIDS Investments Count Bjørn Lomborg 2011-10-14

NEW YORK – It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight. Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist. Funding from developed governments is dropping – a trend that must be reversed. But we also need to acknowledge that billions of dollars have been spent on well-meaning attempts to save lives, with an alarming lack of high-quality evaluation of how these investments have performed. (...)  

OPINION SEPTEMBER 27, 2011. Rethinking the Fight Against AIDS

With funding down, it is critical to identify those measures that achieve the most results for the money spent.

BY BJØRN LOMBORG AND PETER PIOT

Rethinking the Fight against HIV

Bjørn Lomborg 2011-09-15

COPENHAGEN – Thirty years ago, the world got its first inkling of impending catastrophe when five young gay men in Los Angeles were struck down by the illness that became known as HIV/AIDS. Today, the disease has a truly global impact, claiming 1.8 million lives annually – the equivalent of wiping out the population of Washington, DC, three times every year. (...) 

2011 Sept Psychologies

Bjorn Lomborg, academic and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, for shaking up the climate change debate without ever denying the reality of man-made global warming. Nominated by Julian Baggini, philosopher and author of The Ego Trick. 

Sept 5, 2011 The Lomborg Challenge

How can we innovate the price of green technologies?

Interview with Bjørn Lomborg

2011 August, in Forbes Insider

What was your inspiration behind the Copenhagen Consensus?