Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus, visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and author of "False Alarm" and "Best Things First."

Trump UNGA

Opinion

September 25, 2025

Trump's UN speech reveals inconvenient truth of massive green energy costs

Countries with the highest renewable energy investments also have the most expensive electricity due to costly backup power requirements for solar and wind.

Protesters marched on Saturday in Glasgow, host of the COP26 U.N. climate summit.

Opinion

April 16, 2025

Time to pull the plug on corporate virtue-signaling

Leaders of corporate and international organizations got used to being lauded for grand but ultimately empty, green promises on stages in Davos and climate summits. Times have changed.

Trump energy

Opinion

January 29, 2025

The Trump administration must invest in innovation to reassert energy dominance

The Trump administration needs to invest in innovative technology to help reassert energy dominance.

Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change and cancel culture – here's how left uses fear to push costly, radical policies

Opinion

March 15, 2021

Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change and cancel culture – here's how left uses fear to push costly, radical policies

Across the world, politicians are now promising climate policies costing tens of trillions of dollars – money we don’t have and resources that are desperately needed elsewhere.