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COPENHAGEN – Despite gains in life expectancy, expanded access to education, and lower rates of poverty and hunger, the world has a long way to go to improve the quality of people’s lives. Almost a billion people still go to bed hungry, 1.2 billion live in extreme poverty, 2.6 billion lack access to clean drinking water and sanitation, and almost three billion burn harmful materials inside their homes to keep warm.

Forleden morgen vågnede vi op til en stor nyhed. Politiken skrev, at prisen for et fossilfrit Danmark kan holdes nede på omkring 1000 kr. per dansker per år i 2050. Det havde...

COPENHAGEN – The world has generally become a much better place during the last half-century. Skeptics will scoff at the idea of overall improvement, but the numbers don’t lie. The task we face now is to make the world even better.

At the U.N., a Free-for-All on Setting Global Goals

MAY 6, 2014

by Eduardo Porter

"There are, of course, better and worse ideas. Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus, who achieved renown by arguing that current efforts to cut carbon emissions to slow climate change cost too much and deliver too little, argues that many of the new targets also fail the test. He has been making the rounds among diplomats, showing them the results of cost-benefit analyses of some of the ideas on the table..."

NEW YORK – When politicians around the world tell the story of global warming, they cast it as humanity’s greatest challenge. But they also promise that it is a challenge that they can meet at low cost, while improving the world in countless other ways. We now know that is nonsense.

  2014-04-14 原子力発電に背を向け再生エネルギーへと向かうドイツのエネルギーヴェンデ（大転換）は、福島原発事故後の日本のモデルとして何度も言及されています。しかし、ドイツのエネルギー政策は、低所得層にツケを回す上に、気候変動を防ぐ方法としても不十分です。 ドイツ政府は最近、690万世帯がエネルギー貧困の状態にあり、収入の10%以上を光熱費に充てていることを認めました。これは、主として再生エネルギー賦課金のせいなのです。今年、ドイツの消費者は、いわゆる「再生エネルギー再割当負担金」として、通常の電気料金に加えて236億ユーロ(約3兆3700億円）という莫大な金額をグリーン・エネルギーの助成のために支払うことになるでしょう。この負担金は2008年は1キロワット時1.64円だったのが、2014年に入って8.9円へと急騰したのです。この結果、新たに140万世帯がエネルギー貧困に苦しむことになりました。。。 Read on Huffington Post Japan 

2014-03-17 Germany is a showcase for how-not-to in green energy. It is pumping hundreds of billions of euros into subsidies for ineffective and unreliable solar panels and wind turbines that leave poor people struggling to pay their electricity bills and do almost nothing for the climate. 

2014-03-17 MIAMI – According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, “Climate change harms the poor first and worst.” This is true, because the poor are the most vulnerable and have the least resources with which to adapt. But we often forget that current policies to address global warming make energy much more costly, and that this harms the world’s poor much more. Read the article online. 

2014-02-14 FORT LAUDERDALE – At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, leading participants called for a rapid shift to cleaner energy to tackle climate change. There is something unsettling about the global power elite jetting into an exclusive Swiss ski resort and telling the rest of the world to stop using fossil fuels. (...) 

Quel état du monde en 2050? 2014-02-13, BJORN LOMBORG  La Tribune, France.