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It takes time, but this is how a real consensus is built. EPA/NIELS AHLMANN OLESEN/AAP

We need real consensus, not Bjorn Lomborg’s illusion of it

Robert Costanza, Australian National University; Frank Jotzo, Australian National University et Steven Cork, Australian National University

There is a way for governments to find out the consensus on global issues such as climate change. But it involves painstaking, complex work, and an end to the adversarial clash of competing ideologies.
Bjorn Lomborg’s cost-benefit approach isn’t necessarily the best way to look at problems with a global scope. Simon Wedege/Wikimedia Commons

Bjorn Lomborg’s consensus approach is blind to inequality

Graham K. Brown, The University of Western Australia

Bjorn Lomborg’s “consensus” approach involves ranking global development policies by their ratio of benefit to cost. But this hard-headed economic rationale can actually end up entrenching inequality.

Thèmes connexes

  1. Bjorn Lomborg
  2. Climate change
  3. Climate policy
  4. climate sceptic
  5. Foreign aid
  6. Global health
  7. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  8. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  9. International development

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