Bjørn Lomborg

Challenges widely held beliefs regarding the current environmental situation, discussing why there is cause for optimism and the need to prioritize resources to address problems.

Measuring the Real State of the World

The Skeptical Environmentalist

The world faces myriad challenges – yet we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21st Century, how do we deal with natural disasters, tackle global warming, achieve better nutrition, educate children… and address countless other urgent global issues? If you want to change the world, this inspiring and enlightening book is for you. Bjørn Lomborg presents the costs and benefits of the smartest solutions to twelve global problems. By prioritizing the top solutions, this helps us better spend $75 billion to do the most good. Featuring the cutting edge research of more than sixty eminent economists, including four Nobel Laureates, produced for the Copenhagen Consensus, this book will inform, enlighten and motivate actions to make our world a better place.

How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming

Cool it

The Nobel Laureates Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World 2016-2030

In this controversial work, Lomborg presents a second generation of thinking on global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity's problems.

The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

Bjørn Lomborg invites leading economists to provide an innovative 150-year view of humanity's biggest challenges, measured in economic terms.

How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?

The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if all governments were willing to spend more money on solving the problems, we cannot do it all at once. We have to prioritize; and in order to do this we need a better sense of the costs and benefits of each 'solution'. This book offers a rigorous overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the analysis and sketch out policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios. A unique feature is the provision of freely downloadable software which allows readers to make their own cost-benefit calculations for spending money to make the world a better place.

Costs and Benefits

Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems

Global Problems, Smart Solutions

Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not effective. Latin American Development Priorities shows how limited resources could be used for the greatest benefit of the Latin American and Caribbean region. A panel of economists met over three days in San José to review proposals to tackle the ten most important challenges, which emerged from a survey by the Inter-American Development Bank. The expert panel was asked a question which appears simple but is actually very difficult to answer: What should Latin American governments do with an additional nominal $10 billion? Hard choices are needed if Latin America's problems are to be tackled effectively. This book provides the means to make those choices as objectively as possible.

Latin American Development Priorities

The Structure of Solutions in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

Global warming has become one of the permanent concerns of our time, with ever stronger calls to combat it via drastic programs, like the Kyoto Protocol. In this highly controversial book, Bjorn Lomborg (author of the bestselling The Skeptical Environmentalist) claims that the arguments for such action are little more than scare mongering and exposes this wide range of disinformation. Global warming is happening. It's a serious and important problem and we need to deal with it in a responsible way. But in order to do so effectively, Lomborg argues we need to look at the cost and benefits of the proposed measures against global warming. He demonstrates that drastic, here-and-now measures is the worst way to spend our money. Climate change is a 100-year problem - we should not try to fix it in 10 years. This important book explodes myths and places the global warming debate into a broader view.

A timely collection of arguments and data for prioritizing responses to some of the most serious problems facing the world, such as climate change, communicable diseases, and financial instability, features contributions by economists from around the world. Simultaneous.

Global Crises, Global Solutions

There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education, and climate change, to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the problems are quantified in percent of GDP, giving readers a unique opportunity to understand the development of each problem over the past century and the likely development into the middle of this century, and to compare the size of the challenges. For example: how bad was air pollution in 1900? How has it deteriorated and what about the future? Did climate change cost more than malnutrition in 2010? This pioneering initiative to provide answers to many of these questions will undoubtedly spark debate amongst a wide readership.

A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050

How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World?

Thirty years after the identification of the disease that became known as AIDS, humanitarian organizations warn that the fight against HIV/AIDS has slowed, amid a funding shortfall and donor fatigue. In this book, Bjørn Lomborg brings together research by world-class specialist authors, a foreword by UNAIDS founding director Peter Piot and perspectives from Nobel Laureates and African civil society leaders to identify the most effective ways to tackle the pandemic across sub-Saharan Africa. There remains an alarming lack of high-quality data evaluating responses to HIV. We still know too little about what works, where and how to replicate our successes. This book offers the first comprehensive attempt by teams of authors to analyze HIV/AIDS policy choices using cost-benefit analysis, across six major topics. This approach provides a provocative fresh look at the best ways to scale up the fight against this killer epidemic.

Smarter Ways to Invest in Ending HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

RethinkHIV

Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how to combat problems ranging from armed conflicts, corruption and trade barriers, to natural disasters, hunger, education and climate change. For each case, 'Alternative Perspectives' are also included to provide a critique and make other suggestions for investment. In addition, a panel of senior economists, including four Nobel Laureates, rank the attractiveness of each policy proposal in terms of its anticipated cost-benefit ratio. This thought-provoking book opens up debate, encouraging readers to come up with their own rankings and decide which solutions are smarter than others.

Den globale opvarmning er et faktum, den er menneskeskabt, og den udgør en trussel mod miljøet. Det er alle enige om, og det er blevet politisk fashionabelt at udtænke kreative - og dyre - løsninger på problemet. Men er det nu også det, vi skal bruge så stor en del af vores ressourcer - kræfter og penge - på? I sin nye bog forklarer Bjørn Lomborg, hvorfor det er nødvendigt at se den globale opvarmning i et helhedsperspektiv i stedet for at fokusere på kostbare løsninger om begrænsning af CO2-udslippet, som kun vil have en meget ringe effekt på længere sigt. Faktisk er der mange og meget mere presserende problemer i verden, hvor vi har mulighed for at sætte ind med løsninger, der gør mere gavn, over for mennesker, der har mere brug for det, og hvor vi har chance for at lykkes.

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Vi føler os truet af fiskedød, udpinte marker og afbrændte skove og imødeser med rædsel, hvordan menneskeheden langsomt kvæles i sit eget affald. Gennem årene har miljøeksperter fra hver sin vinkel bidraget til vores overbevisning om altings undergang kun få generationer ude i fremtiden. Men der er ikke grund til et så altomfattende sortsyn. Punkt for punkt viser Bjørn Lomborg, hvordan den internationale miljølobbys prognoser bygger på ufuldstændig dokumentation og fejlfortolkede statistikker, og at miljøet har det bedre, end vi tror. Fremover bør vi fokusere på at tilvejebringe et videnskabeligt funderet grundlag for vores prioritering på miljøområdet. "Tankevækkende, stimulerende og på én gang opløftende og lidt skræmmende at læse. Opløftende, fordi det er godt at vide, at verden ikke går ad helvede til. Skræmmende, fordi man tvinges til så megen skepsis over for så mange etablerede sandheder." – Tøger Seidenfaden, Politiken Bjørn Lomborg (f. 1965) er kandidat og ph.d. i statskundskab. Han har arbejdet som adjunkt og lektor ved Aarhus Universitet og blev i 2002 direktør for Institut for Miljøvurdering.

Verdens sande tilstand

The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and 'black carbon', expanding forest, research and development of low-carbon energy and encouraging green technology transfer. For each policy, authors outline all of the costs, benefits and likely outcomes, in fully referenced, clearly presented chapters accompanied by shorter, critical alternative perspectives. To further stimulate debate, a panel of economists, including three Nobel laureates, evaluate and rank the attractiveness of the policies. This authoritative and thought-provoking book will challenge readers to form their own conclusions about the best ways to respond to global warming.

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