Bjørn Lomborg

President, Copenhagen Consensus, and author of False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

President, Copenhagen Consensus, and author of False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

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Stories by the author

• A climate of commonsense

  
  09 Nov 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Why are cold deaths ignored while heat deaths dominate climate change narratives?

  
  01 Aug 2025 11:13 PM IST
• Climate summit hypocrisy: The disconnect between promises and reality in global emissions

  
  28 Nov 2024 11:07 PM IST
• Turn the tap off, slowly: Abruptly ending fossil fuels will impact lives badly; here's what to do instead

  
  6 mins read14 Jun 2024
• COP28: Almost every rich country is preaching far more than it delivers

  
  5 mins read4 Dec 2023
• View: Digitisation and proper mapping of land records could lead to substantial economic prosperity

  
  5 mins read29 Jun 2023
• Why free trade is one of the most remarkable ways to deliver better lives and incomes

  
  6 mins read15 Jun 2023
• View: Fighting with hunger, malnutrition is need of the hour

  
  6 mins read24 May 2023
• $46 yield per dollar invested: Here's why the world should invest more to eradicate tuberculosis

  
  6 mins read8 May 2023
• How e-procurement can greatly reduce corruption worldwide

  
  6 mins read14 Apr 2023
• Small investments in simple solutions can make a big impact in saving lives of mums & babies

  
  6 mins read4 Apr 2023
• Prioritise immunisation, it’s a powerful tool for enhancing survival rates and economic prosperity

  
  6 mins read12 Mar 2023
• Pouring resources into agricultural R&D for most impoverished nations is a game-changer

  
  6 mins read2 Mar 2023
• Instead of having 169 Sustainable Development Goals, let’s prioritise targets that matter most

  
  6 mins read16 Feb 2023
• View: The climate fight will be more effective if data is presented without sensationalism

  
  7 mins read3 Nov 2022
• The breathtaking hypocrisy of rich countries telling developing world to switch to renewables

  
  6 mins read29 Aug 2022
• View: A potential solution to the spiralling global food crisis

  
  6 mins read14 Jul 2022
• Climate action: UN is misusing data, and its approach has been repeatedly shown to be wrong

  
  6 mins read8 May 2022
• View: How to make doing good better

  
  27 Dec 2021 12:09 AM IST
• Cheaper green energy is the solution of climate issues

  
  5 mins read19 Nov 2021