Dr. Bjorn Lomborg speaks with Adam Shand of 6PR Drive to discuss why it is so important to set smart development priorities and the myth around organic foods. 

The project 'Bangladesh Priorities' set out to have a conversation on what is best for Bangladesh. In that spirit, I welcome the commentary from Nick Beresford of UNDP Bangladesh on September 29. His concerns merit a considered response.

W tym tygodniu szalała debata o tym, czy umowa o budowie nowej elektrowni atomowej w Hinkley Point jest dobra. Jest jednak inny żywotny element polityki energetycznej, o którym się nie mówi. Bowiem jedną z kluczowych korzyści opuszczenia Unii Europejskiej jest to, że Wielka Brytania nie będzie już musiała podporządkować się nadmiernie restrykcyjnym regulacjom wydobywania gazu łupkowego lub szczelinowania, co ma potencjał radykalnego przekształcenia rynku energetycznego.

Once a year or so, journalists from major news outlets travel to the Marshall Islands, a remote chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, to report in panicked tones that the island nation is vanishing because of climate change. Their dispatches are often filled with raw emotion and suggest that residents are fleeing atolls swiftly sinking into the sea.

It is now a year since the UN set its new Sustainable Development Goals to try to make the world a better place. They include 17 goals and a massive 169 targets on subjects like disease, education and governance. But some people like Bjorn Lomborg are saying that there are just too many and they are too broad, and left like that will never achieve anything. Is he right? Is there a better way to make the world better and stop some countries lagging behind?

¿ESTÁ COMETIENDO Greenpeace un crimen contra la humanidad? Una carta de 113 premios Nobel lo sugiere. En ella, los laureados instan al grupo ecologista a abandonar su campaña contra los alimentos genéticamente modificados, especialmente contra el conocido como “arroz dorado”, que podría ayudar a evitar millones de muertes en países en vías de desarrollo.

I had the privilege of meeting the President of Colombia to discuss priorities for the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, last year. We had an excellent discussion about how to make the world a better place as well as achieving the most good for Colombia specifically.

In “Solar and wind are viable, not just ‘feel-good’ climate solutions” (Sept. 27), Jim Davidson made a Counterpoint to my recent arguments about green energy (“Feel-good solutions won’t solve climate change,” Sept. 22).

Davidson supports my championing of spending $100 billion a year on green energy R&D. He suggests that this is a new position. But I have in fact advocated it consistently for a decade, including in a front-page article in the British newspaper The Guardian in 2010.

Os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) das Nações Unidas incluem nas suas metas o ensino básico para todas as crianças, empregos para todos os adultos e a erradicação da fome e da pobreza. Estas aspirações são nobres, mas os custos envolvidos são muito elevados. Teremos verdadeirame