Bjørn Lomborg

New improved edition with updated introduction by Bjorn Lomborg. 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 global issues? If you want to change the world, this inspiring and enlightening book is for you. Bjorn Lomborg presents the costs and benefi ts 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.

Edited by Bj�rn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert who defines the scale of the issue and examines a range of policy options.

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research institutes, Bjørn Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental problems that feature prominently in headline news across the world. His arguments are presented in non-technical, accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2500 footnotes allowing readers to check sources for themselves. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, Bjørn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritisation of resources to tackle real, not imagined problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media.

Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults wonder if it is even ethical to bring new life into the world. Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education. False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.

Bjørn Lomborg is the best-informed & most humane advocate for environmental change in the world today. In contrast to other figures that promote a single issue while ignoring others, he views the globe as a whole, studies all the problems, ranks them, & determines how best, & in what order, to address them. His 1st book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, established the importance of a fact-based approach. With later books, Global Crises, Global Solutions & How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, this mild-mannered Danish statistician has steadily gained new converts. Not surprisingly, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Cool It will further enhance his reputation for global analysis & thoughtful response. For anyone who wants an overview of the global warming debate from an objective source, this brief text is a good place to start. He's only interested in real problems. He's no patience with media fear-mongering. He begins by dispatching the myth of endangered polar bears, showing that this Disneyesque cartoon has no relevance to the real world where polar bear populations are in fact increasing. He considers the issue in detail, citing sources from Al Gore to the World Wildlife Fund, then demonstrating that polar bear populations have actually increased fivefold since the '60s. He then works his way thru the concerns we hear so much about: higher temperatures, heat deaths, species extinctions, the cost of cutting carbon, the technology to do it. He believes in climate change--despite his critics, he's no denier--but his fact-based approach, grounded in economic analyses, leads him to a different view. He reviews published estimates of the cost of climate change, & the cost of addressing it, & concludes that "we actually end up paying more for a partial solution than the cost of the entire problem. That is a bad deal." In some of the most disturbing chapters, he recounts what leading climate figures have said about anyone who questions the orthodoxy, thus demonstrating the illiberal, antidemocratic tone of the current debate. He himself takes the larger view, detailing why the tone of hysteria is inappropriate to addressing the problems. In the end, his concerns embrace the planet. He contrasts our concern for climate with other concerns such as HIV/AIDS, malnutrition & providing clean water. In the end, his ability to put climate in a global perspective is perhaps the book's greatest value. Lomborg & Cool It are our best guides to our shared environmental future.--Michael Crichton (edited)

Now selected as one of the Best Books of 2023 by The Economist.In this urgent, thought-provoking book, Bjorn Lomborg presents the 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises. • If you want to make the world better, Best Things First is the book to read.World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are supposed to be delivered by 2030. The goals literally promise everything, like eradicating poverty, hunger and disease; stopping war and climate change, ending corruption, fixing education along with countless other promises. This year, the world is at halftime for its promises, but nowhere near halfway. Together with more than a hundred of the world’s top economists, Bjorn Lomborg has worked for years to identify the world’s best solutions. Based on 12 new, peer-reviewed papers, forthcoming in Cambridge University Press’ Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, this book highlights the world’s best policies.Some things are difficult to fix, cost a lot, and help little. Other problems we know how to fix, at low cost, with remarkable outcomes. We should do the smart things first. Governments and philanthropists should focus on these 12 smartest things. Fix tuberculosis, malaria, and chronic disease, tackle malnutrition, improve education, increase trade, implement e-procurement, and secure land tenure. This will improve the world amazingly. The cost is $35 billion a year. The benefits include saving 4.2 million lives each year and generating $1.1 trillion more for the world’s poor.We can definitely afford The cost of $35 billion is equivalent to the increase in annual global spending on cosmetics over the last two years. This is likely the best thing the world can do this decade.

In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals set a few, highly effective targets for the world, e.g. halve the proportion of poor and reduce childhood mortality by two-thirds. These targets have been a huge success. Now, the world must decide its targets for the next 15 years. The UN has proposed 169 targets, but not all are equally effective. Copenhagen Consensus has asked 60 teams of the world s top economists to weigh up the social, environmental and economic benefits and costs of 100+ targets across 22 global topics from Air Pollution and Education to Water. The world will spend $2.5 trillion on these targets 2016-2030. Picking the best targets can triple the benefits for the world s poorest. This book can help us choose better.

Ein Buch über die Klimapolitik, das den Klimawandel nicht leugnet, aber die Maßnahmen zu dessen Eindämmung kritisch hinterfragt.Hitzewellen, Dürren und Starkregen in Deutschland, Wirbelstürme, Waldbrände und schmelzende Gletscher im Rest der Welt. Die Reaktion von Politikern, Aktivisten und die Medien besteht in einer einzigen, gemeinsam vorgetragen und dramatisch zugespitzten Der Klimawandel zerstört den Planeten, und wir müssen sofort drastische Maßnahmen ergreifen, um ihn zu stoppen.Diese Hysterie ist nicht nur übertrieben, sondern sie ist auch nicht hilfreich, so argumentiert der Naturwissenschaftler und »skeptische Umweltschützer« Bjorn Lomborg. Ja, der Klimawandel ist real, aber zum einen ist er nicht die apokalyptische Bedrohung, als die er dargestellt wird, zum anderen stellt er ein lösbares Problem dar. Doch in ihrer Panik haben sich die Staats- und Regierungschefs zu extrem teuren, aber weitgehend unwirksamen Maßnahmen verpflichtet. Unsere Obsession mit dem Klimawandel führt also dazu, dass wir Billionen für nutzlose Aktionen aus dem Fenster werfen, anstatt mehr Geld in Forschung und Entwicklung zu stecken, um die Energiefrage zu lösen und die Erderwärmung einzudämmen.»Falscher Alarm« wird Sie davon überzeugen, dass alles, was Sie über den Klimawandel zu wissen glauben, falsch ist. Doch Bjorn Lomborg bleibt nicht bei der Kritik der aktuellen Politik Er unterbreitet eine Vielzahl konkreter Vorschläge, wie man die Welt auf einem bezahlbaren Weg zu einem weitaus besseren, wenn auch etwas wärmeren Ort für uns alle machen könnte.

Los gobiernos y los filántropos deberían dar prioridad a aquellos objetivos que funcionan, que son baratos y que permiten resultados notables Si quieres saber cómo mejorar el mundo, lee este libro.Los líderes mundiales se han dedicado a hacer grandes promesas. La ONU, con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, se ha comprometido a erradicar la pobreza, el hambre y las enfermedades, a detener la guerra y el cambio climático, a acabar con la corrupción, a arreglar la educación y a un sinfín de metas más. Pero deben cumplirse en 2030 y de momento están fracasando.Bjorn Lomborg ha trabajado durante años, junto con más de cien de los mejores economistas del mundo, para identificar las soluciones a los problemas globales. Este libro es el resultado de doce artículos académicos que sintetizan las políticas más efectivas y realmente factibles.Los gobiernos y los filántropos deberían dar prioridad a aquellos objetivos que sí funcionan, que son baratos y que logran resultados notables. Curar la tuberculosis, la malaria y las enfermedades crónicas, atajar la desnutrición, mejorar la educación, incrementar el comercio, impulsar la transformación digital y garantizar la propiedad de la tierra, entre otras. Concentrar nuestros limitados recursos y nuestra atención en los remedios más inteligentes es lo mejor que podemos hacer antes de que acabe la década.

If you were in the fortunate position of being able to direct how a large sum of money was spent to improve Haiti’s wellbeing and prosperity, what would you do? Maybe you would focus on improving education? Research shows that this improves a nation’s health and economy for generations. Or maybe your top concern would be healthcare, or water and sanitation? There are obviously many other issues like infrastructure, or disaster preparedness. Moreover, what should you do within these broad areas? Within education, should you first focus on higher education or pre-school? Should your first health focus be immunization or diabetes? Should disaster preparedness include some sort of armed forces to replace the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)? When anybody tries to answer this question, all of us encounter the same there is little information on the cost of such interventions and even less on the benefits. This book is the result of our collaboration with more than 700 economists, experts, and researchers from Haiti and around the world, spanning sectors like education, governance, health, nutrition, infrastructure and so many more, to identify and shift attention to the best policies for Haiti, giving its citizens a better chance at a more prosperous future. Since resources are limited everywhere, we believe economic prioritization should be included in any serious debate about policy planning and decision-making for every country, not just Haiti. Each of these short chapters was written in the first instance as a newspaper article and published in one of Haiti’s leading newspapers, Le Nouvelliste or Le National. They have now been edited and refined for this book. There are many ways you could read this book, the most obvious being from cover to cover. But if you’re like most people, you probably have only a handful of policy areas that really matter to you. If that’s the case, flip to the table of contents, find the policy areas that interest you, and go straight to the relevant chapters.

In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals set a few, highly effective targets for the world, e.g. halve the proportion of poor and hungry and reduce childhood mortality by two-thirds. The goals have been a huge success. Now, the UN and the world is to decide which new goals will take over in 2015.The UN s Open Working Group has proposed 169 targets. But we need to know which are most effective. Copenhagen Consensus has asked 30+ of the world s top economists to highlight phenomenal, good, fair and poor targets, weighing up the social, environmental and economic benefits and costs. The world will spend $2.5 trillion in development aid from 2015-2030, and these goals will influence a large part of that spending. Making just one target better can do hundreds of billions of dollars worth of good.Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think tank that investigates and publishes the best policies and investment opportunities based on data and cost-benefit analysis for governments and philanthropists to make the world a better place. Copenhagen Consensus Center works with 100+ of the world s top economists and 7 Nobel Laureates to prioritize solutions to the world's biggest problems, on the basis of data and cost-benefit analysis.For his work with Copenhagen Consensus, Bjorn Lomborg was named one of the world s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine, one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century by Esquire magazine, and one of the 50 people who could save the planet by the UK Guardian. He has repeatedly been named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy.

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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Niektóre problemy trudno rozwiązać, są kosztowne, a ich naprawa niewiele pomaga. Inne wiemy, jak rozwiązać niskim kosztem i ze świetnym skutkiem. W pierwszej kolejności powinniśmy zająć się rozsądnymi rzeczami. Rządy i filantropi powinni skupić się na tych 12 najrozsądniejszych krokach. Wyeliminować gruźlicę, malarię i choroby przewlekłe, walczyć z niedożywieniem, poprawić edukację, zwiększyć handel, wdrożyć e-zamówienia i zabezpieczyć własność gruntów. To bardzo poprawi sytuację na świecie. Koszt to 35 miliardów dolarów rocznie. Korzyści obejmują uratowanie 4,2 miliona istnień ludzkich każdego roku i wygenerowanie 1,1 biliona dolarów więcej dla ubogich na świecie. Zdecydowanie możemy sobie na to pozwolić. Tytuł Best Things First Tł Dagmara Magryta

This book is the result of our collaboration with a wide range of economists, experts, and researchers from Ghana and around the world, spanning sectors like education, governance, health, nutrition, infrastructure and so many more, to identify and shift attention to the best policies for Ghana, giving its citizens a better chance at a more prosperous future. Since resources are limited everywhere, we believe economic prioritization should be included in any serious debate about policy planning and decision-making for every country, not just Ghana. Each of these short chapters was written in the first instance as a newspaper article and published in Ghana’s leading newspaper, The Daily Graphic. They have now been edited and re-fined for this book. In the book you will also find their personal thoughts and rankings of The Ghana Priorities Eminent Panel members, that reviewed the evidence of value-for-money for the policy interventions described in the book and prioritized the proposals accordingly. •Mr Kenneth Ofori-Atta •Prof. George Gyan-Baffour •Prof. Sister Euginia Amporfu •Prof. Kwesi Botchwey•Prof. Augustin Fosu •Prof. Ernest Aryeetey •Prof. Finn E. KydlandThere are many ways you could read this book, the most obvious being from cover to cover. But if you’re like most people, you probably have only a handful of policy areas that really matter to you. If that’s the case, flip to the table of contents, find the policy areas that interest you, and go straight to the relevant chapters. You don’t have to read the chapters in any specific order to get the most out of the book, but we do think each chapter is worth the read. Our argument is from a policy standpoint, challenge areas are usually complex. As a result, solutions in one area usually rely on and affect other areas.

With a diversified economy, high growth rates, and an international high profile, Andhra Pradesh is an important part of the nation’s success story. But AP and indeed every state and nation on Earth, does not have unlimited funds. It has to choose between many worthy opportunities to speed progress and respond to the remaining challenges. What is the best way to continue developing while ensuring that everyone benefits, and gaps are closed? There are nearly as many different answers to that question as there are people living in the state. For many, education could be paramount – but does that mean first focusing on getting more people into tertiary education, or improving early childhood access, or on further expanding skills training programs? Again if nutrition is the key priority, there would still exist a need for identifying whether malnourishment should be addressed through micronutrients for pregnant women during ANC visits or the use of ready to use therapeutic foods and supplementary nutrition for malnourished children. The aim is to identify what works and what does not in terms of social, economic and environmental effects per rupee spent. Andhra Pradesh Priorities is a research and advocacy project that is part of the larger India Consensus – a partnership between Tata Trusts and the Copenhagen Consensus Center. Andhra Pradesh Priorities analyzed investments to establish how to achieve the most social, environmental and economic good for Andhra Pradesh for every rupee spent. It utilizes the award-winning Copenhagen Consensus approach, which has been refined over the past ten years to improve global and regional spending priorities and has now been adapted to reflect the diversity and size of India. AP Priorities has been running for more than a year conducting studies across a wide range of policy areas - from education, health and governance to trade, infrastructure development, and energy in the state of AP.The AP Priorities Eminent Panel Academic event which took place from the 18-20th June, 2018 had leading economists presenting their research on Andhra Pradesh in front of esteemed Eminent Panel members including former CEO of Oxfam India Dr Nisha Agrawal; Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Vinita Bali; Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research and President of the Indian Economic Association Professor S. Mahendra Dev; and Nobel prize-winning economist Professor Finn Kydland. The Eminent Panel was facilitated by Dr Bjorn Lomborg, President of Copenhagen Consensus and named by TIME magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. The Eminent Panel deliberated on the findings and came to a consensus on the top priorities for the state of AP in terms of delivering the most benefits given limited state budgets.The AP Priorities Prioritisation results were then presented to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of AP – Shri Chandrababu Naidu on the 20th of June. He welcomed the findings of the Eminent Panel of economists, prioritising 77 policies and interventions to help Andhra Pradesh achieve its goal of becoming India’s leading state in social development and economic growth.The Chief Minister said that he intended to continuously work with the project team. “It’s a very good study and I am very happy with it. I invite Andhra Pradesh Priorities to present an Action Plan for implementation.”This book presents, in an accessible format, the research that allows readers to make their own decisions on development priorities -- along with the panel member's findings.