Development

2013-10-14 FOR the past half century, a fundamental debate has raged between optimists and pessimists over the state of the world. Pessimists build their case on overpopulation, starvation and depletion of resources. Optimists stand for the infallibility of the market economy. Wouldn't it be nice to remove the darkened or rose-tinted spectacles for once, and try to quantify how the world really has done and will do in future? I asked some of the world's leading economists to do just that. The result is a groundbreaking book, How Much Have Global Problems Cost The World?

2013-09-26 Swedish/Finnish Katternö journal features a 6-page cover story on Bjorn Lomborg.

2013-07-10 Globalne ocieplenie wymaga nowych  rozwiązań. I nie mogą one polegać na  windowaniu cen paliw kopalnych,   lecz na uczynieniu odnawialnej energii  tak tanią, by wszyscy jej zapragnęli. Przeczytaj artykuł w Internecie lub w pliku PDF poniżej.

2013-07-01 The World Bank offers a shoddy climate catastrophe in its latest report. It is depressing the World Bank has embraced this worst-case thinking in a series of highly tendentious reports, co-written by Germany's leading doomsayer Schellnhuber and Bill Hare, long-term Climate Policy Director for Greenpeace. The report estimates that temperatures will increase 0.7°C in about 20 years (by the 2030s, page 22). This is far outside the current reality. It is almost twice as the rate of temperature increase over the past 160 years.

2013-06-27 Grüne Energietechnologie sei viel zu teuer, um international Akzeptanz zu finden, sagen Kritiker und fordern Grundlagenforschung. Ein deutscher Windradbauer macht vor, dass es auch anders geht. Seine Anlagen für windarme Regionen sind weltweit gefragt. 

2013-06-05 ONZ zastanawia się nad celami, jakie należy ustalić na następne dziesięciolecie, żeby wesprzeć zrównoważony rozwój ludzkości. Wysoki panel, w skład którego wchodzą prezydent Indonezji Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, prezydent Liberii Ellen Johnson Sirleaf i premier Wielkiej Brytanii David Cameron, poda swoje rekomendacje w piątek 31 maja. (...) Przeczytaj artykuł w Internecie lub w pliku PDF poniżej.

2013-06-08 El 8 de junio, legisladores, científicos, ONGs y líderes empresariales se reunirán en la ciudad de Londres, Inglaterra, para llevar a cabo una reunión de alto nivel sobre nutrición. El encuentro, en el que estará presente el gobierno del Reino Unido como co-anfitrión, es parte de los preparativos del G81. (...) Por Bjørn Lomborg 

2013-06-03 Organizace spojených národů přemýšlí, jaké cíle stanovit pro nadcházející desetiletí na podporu rozvoje a udržitelnosti lidstva. Panel na vysoké úrovni, jehož členy jsou i indonéský prezident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, liberijský prezident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf a britský ministerský předseda David Cameron, v pátek přednese svá doporučení. (...)

2013-05-29 By Bjørn Lomborg, in Huffington Post. The UN is pondering which goals to set for the next decades to advance human development and sustainability. A high-level panel including Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and UK Prime Minister David Cameron will be making their recommendations this Friday. They could get a treasure trove of ideas from some of the world's top economists. In a new book, these economists summarize humanity's smartest ideas and best investments.

Interview with Bjørn Lomborg "An approach to doing good for the world, based on cost-effectiveness considerations – for some people this means a contradiction in terms, for others it is a possible tool for shifting the switches for present and future scenarios. In every case, Bjørn Lomborg, the Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School will give rise to lively debates with his key-note lecture in Barcelona. Interested attendees of CESIO 2013 can find some extracts of his general ideas in this interview."