The Hoover Institution held a Fellow Talk with Bjorn Lomborg on Monday, April 1, 2024 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PT. Lomborg discusses Climate and Development Spending: How the World Bank and others are spending evermore resources on doing ever less good.

Officially, the UN has 169 development goals. It should instead focus on a dozen or so high-payoff policies, like tablets in grade schools
 

Author and Copenhagen Consensus Center President Bjorn Lomborg has raised concerns about tuberculosis and its effect on lower-class people.

Poverty alleviation and climate change are two of the biggest, if not THE two biggest challenges facing the world today. Both require huge amounts of international cooperation, and of course money, to solve. But is the world getting the balance of funding right?

Climate policy needs to take into account the costs of draconian measures, which are enormous.

Watching the news, you get the sense that climate change is making the planet unlivable. We are bombarded with images of floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. We see deadly events nearby but also far-flung disasters when the pictures are scary enough.

Bjorn Lomborg recently discussed some of the findings of his new book Best Things First* (named as one of the best books of 2023 by The Economist) with Bret Weinstein on the DarkHorse Podcast.

Watching the news, you get the sense that climate change is making the planet unlivable. We are bombarded with images of floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.

Too many rich-world politicians and climate campaigners forget that much of the world remains mired in poverty and hunger.

Stanford's Hoover Institute fellow Bjorn Lomborg responds to a Washington Post article alleging that house plants are bad for the planet. #FoxNews