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Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the president of the Copenhagen Consensus speaks to Businessworld's Neeta Misra on how they worked with key stakeholders to prioritise the SDGs for Bangaldesh.

The Paris Climate Agreement will cost at least $1 trillion per year, and climate activists say it will save the planet. The truth? It won't do anything for the planet, but it will make everyone poorer--except politicians and environmentalists. Bjorn Lomborg explains.

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg speaks with Roy green about two of his recent articles - The Free-Trade Miracle and How Green Policies Hurt the Poor. Bjorn’s interview starts at the minute 35. 

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. 

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?

Dr. Lomborg stopped by The New York Times to speak with Nicholas Kristof about the work of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and how to do the most good in the world.

“You can spend your money and do a lot of good many different places but some places you will do just a little good and some places you will do a lot good. Let’s do those places first.”

– Bjorn Lomborg

"Danmark er verdensmestre i at spise økologisk. Men økologien er hverken sundere for os eller dyrene, og det vil koste milliarder af kroner og tusinder af liv, hvis hele verden lægger om til økologi. Det siger miljøskeptiker Bjørn Lomborg. Har han ret? Debat med Bjørn Lomborg, Paul Holmbeck, Økologisk Landsforening, Martin Merrild, Landbrug & Fødevarer og Claus Kragh, Mandag Morgen."

Here’s $2.5 trillion. You have 15 years to spend it. How do you distribute this money in a way that will achieve the most good for the world? This isn’t a hypothetical. In September 2015, the United Nations set its Sustainable Development Goals,  a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals it set in 2000.

"Bjørn Lomborg har i næsten 20 år været en torn i øjet på alverdens klimaforkæmpere. Han gør ikke længere en dyd ud af at provokere, men han nægter at holde sin kæft, når alarmister blæser klimaproblemerne ud af proportioner."

Are droughts, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters getting stronger and more frequent? Are carbon dioxide emissions, global temperatures and sea levels putting us on a path for climate catastrophe? Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, breaks down the facts about the environment and shows why the reality of climate change may be very different from what you hear in the media.