What Bjørn Lomborg thinks about economists
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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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Bjørn Lomborg has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingUnchecked warming is expected to cost between 2% and 3% of global GDP by the end of the century.
Their wordsBut the best climate economists consistently estimate that unchecked warming will cost 2% to 3% of global GDP by the end of the century.