Bjorn Lomborg

Yeah! Best Things First just named one of 2023 Best Books How do most good in world: For $35bn/yr save 4.2 million lives & make the poorer world $1.1 trillion richer—every year! Maybe a Christmas present? Audiobook, paperback, kindle, and hardback amazon.com/Best-Things-Fi…

My letter in today's WSJ: Good Senate Republicans saved some global health aid— it's remarkably efficient Childhood vaccines deliver nearly $300 of good for every American dollar spent protecting 75M more kids & preventing 1.2M+ deaths in next 5 years archive.ph/ysQAG…

The UN has lost the plot on effective development The international development system is in disarray. Aid budgets have been slashed in many OECD countries, USAID has been gutted, and the development banks like the World Bank divert ever more of their funding to climate even as…

Don’t let alarmists mislead you about heat deaths Across Europe, North America and Asia, the media is warning of dangerously high temperatures this summer. This marks an annual routine: we are being inundated with alarming stories about heat domes, heat deaths and heat waves,…

Did you hear this reported anywhere? It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any half-year in recorded human history Great story from @RogerPielkeJr

They want you to be afraid Such a self-defeating approach to advocacy

Highly skilled migration is one of the world's best investments. At a cost of $2.8bn/year, it delivers 20x social benefits. Peer-reviewed #SDGs research for Copenhagen Consensus published by Cambridge University Press cambridge.org/core/journals/…

2024 US foreign aid spending was 1% of the federal budget Americans, on average, believe it is 26% of the federal budget and 15% believe it is more than half! kff.org/global-health-…

The most deadly day in a poor woman's life: the day she gives birth 2.6 million mothers and infants die each year We can save 1.4 million at very low cost My new book outlines 12 best global solutions The Economist "Best books of 2023" Read the first chapters free:…

The vast majority of future emissions come from China, India, Africa, and other non-rich countries The West obsesses about cutting its own CO₂ But a successful climate policy is really about innovating green energy to become so cheap that everyone can afford to switch Data:…

Covering Climate Now explains that their goal is to make 100% of people alarmed about climate change That explains a big part of the media’s relentless climate apocalypse campaign

Economic suicide dressed in eco-virtue: The EU is now promising to cut carbon emissions by 90% in just 15 years. The cost by mid-century could be more than $3 trillion every year — more than all current public spending in the EU. nypost.com/2025/07/17/opi…

EU Climate policy: Wasteful and useless Cost: €100+ trillion Benefit: trivial even by 2100—0.04°C (0.07°F) EU should do green R&D instead UN climate model: magicc.org Using updated current policies: REMIND-MAgPIE 3.2-4.6, data.ece.iiasa.ac.at/ngfs-phase-4 Since this is…