What Bjørn Lomborg thinks about climate change
Danish author; president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. Author of The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001), False Alarm (2020) and Best Things First (2023); writes newspaper columns arguing for cost-benefit priorities in climate and development policy.
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4 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Bjørn Lomborg has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe main UN model shows that even if all rich countries were to cut their carbon emissions to zero, it would avert less than 0.2°F of projected warming by the end of the century, while imposing massive hits of up to 18% on rich-world GDP by 2050.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsLeaders from Europe, Australia and Canada, making ever-larger climate promises with ever-emptier rhetoric, ignore the crucial reality that Western actions are no longer central to solving climate change.
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Their wordsWhile the West dominated carbon emissions in the past, future emissions will overwhelmingly come from China, India, Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and other countries clambering out of poverty.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsClimate change is a real problem, but it is not the end of the world.