Name: Climate Change | Bjorn Lomborg
Uploaded: 2021-11-03T22:24:45+00:00
Duration: 1 h 11 min 42 s
Description: In this Conversation, John speaks with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg about climate change policy, the recent Australian bushfires, and other significant issues facing the world. Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is president of

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Climate change Australian bushfires Copenhagen consensus Bjorn Lomborg John Anderson Sustainable development Sustainable Development Goals UN sustainable development goals Green extremism Climate change denial Global warming

In this Conversation, John speaks with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg about climate change policy, the recent Australian bushfires, and other significant issues facing the world.

Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think-tank that researches the smartest ways to do good. For this work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.

His numerous books include The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cool It, How to Spend 75,000,000,000 to Make the World a Better Place, the Nobel Laureates’ Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World 2016-2030 and Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the UN’s SDGs.

#ClimateChange #Environment #IPCC #RenewableEnergy
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00:00 Introduction
1:15 Appreciating Human Progress
10:40 Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why it’s Important
22:14 Prioritising Issues that Matter
33:04 Politicising Climate Change
42:00 Affordable Ways to Improve the World
55:30 The Danger of Climate Tribalism
59:25 Technological Solutions to Climate Change
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