Bjorn Lomborg
One of Time Magazine 100 most influential people in the world. Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Dr. Lomborg researches the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. For this, he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine, one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century by Esquire magazine, one of the 50 people who could save the planet by the UK Guardian, and one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy.
Lomborg writes for New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, the Economist, The Guardian and many others, and his monthly column gets published in about 40 papers in 19 languages with more than 30 million readers.Lomborg has appeared on David Letterman, Larry King, 20/20, 60 minutes, and many times on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, BBC World,. He was featured in the movie “Cool it”, by Sundance Award Winning Director Ondi Timoner.
He is an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School and regularly works with many of the world’s top economists, including 7 Nobel Laureates. His think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, was ranked by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the world’s "Top 25 Environmental Think Tanks".
For a longer bio, photos kindly visit: www.lomborg.com/about. On the website you also find videos and his latest articles. Most relevant “related links” are: www.copenhagenconsensus.comwith in-depth information on projects and publications, and www.coolit-themovie.comand Bjorn’s TED-talk.Topics:
- Climate Change
- The skeptical environmentalist- Environmental and Human progress
- Sustainability, Government & Contemporary Society
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Global/World Affairs and Economic Rationality
Presentations:
In his presentations Bjorn systematically examines today's most important global crises issues and offers sustainable solutions. His message is as simple as it is important.
Bjorn's presentations are well researched and filled with real life examples as well as important and useful information delivered in an easily digestible way.
The audience can be invited to collaborate and set their own priorities on what solutions could make the world a better place.
The Truth about Global Warming
This thought-provoking talk is based on Dr. Lomborg’s bestselling book and film, Cool It. Here, Lomborg will demonstrate how we're often told very one-sided and exaggerated claims about the environment and climate change, leading to unwarranted panic, instead of rationally assessing where and how we can do the most good. He argues that to tackle global warming we need smarter solutions focused on getting long-term solutions like cost-competitive renewables and that many of the impacts of global warming would be better addressed through adaptation.
Scorecard for Humanity: The World from 1900 to 2050
In this sweeping lecture, Dr. Lomborg covers how the development of the world across ten areas and 150 years, from 1900 to 2050, based on the research of more than 30 of the world’s top economists. He will look at how diverse problems from malnutrition and disease to global warming and biodiversity have progressed from the turn of the last century till today, and how development is likely to continue till mid-century. Some areas have improved, some have declined, but uniquely, Lomborg shows all of the developments in terms of percent of GDP, making a comparison across topics available for the first time. Based on his upcoming, groundbreaking book: Scorecard for Humanity, Lomborg will show us how humanity’s path so far has been one of unprecedented progress, which with some reservations, are likely to continue into the future. This is a hopeful talk for all that are interested in the long sweep of human history, based on the pure, economic facts.
How to Make Your Efforts Count: Feeling Good vs. Doing Good
Lomborg will energize participants with a controversial and stimulating session on how they can prioritize the world's greatest problems. The organizer can choose between thirteen global issues like global warming, health, food, education, and natural disasters. Lomborg takes the audience through some of the best solutions for each problem, and asks the audience itself to rank these solutions according to their judgment of how effective these solutions might be. The premise is that we can't solve every problem in the world, so we must ask, which ones should we fix first?
The cost and benefit information on the problems is based on years of work by 60+ of the world’s top economists, including four Nobel Laureates, which Lomborg gathers every four years for the Copenhagen Consensus. Presenting it to the audience, getting everyone involved and producing the audience’s priority list for the world at the end, offers a uniquely inspiring, entertaining and informative experience.
Limits to Growth: The fatal argument that put us on the wrong environmental track for decades
This hopeful talk is based on Dr. Lomborg’s much-publicized piece in Foreign Affairs. Here, he shows us how the argument for running out of resources and choking in pollution was wrong already when it was made, but has since proven spectacularly wrong. Despite us using ever more resources, we actually have more resources left over — because of technology: we have become better at finding, utilizing and extracting them. Despite ever higher production, we are actually polluting the air and water less, again because of technology: we pollute much less because of cleaner production and smarter design.
It does not mean there are no environmental problems. But we can stop panicking and start thinking smartly about how to tackle the remaining problems in the best possible way. For instance, if we want to tackle global warming, we should focus less on unsupported alarmist messages and impotent moralizing. Instead, we should focus on what solved the problems for Limits to Growth: technology. We should make green energy much cheaper through innovation, while we investigate the very cheap opportunities of cooling the planet through geoengineering. The opportunities are huge, and unlike the Kyoto Protocol and similar legislation, the costs could be 10s to 1000s of times cheaper, while we would do much more good. Other titles on environmental and human progress, smart solutions for the world, public policy etc. are available on request.
Autor:
- The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001)
- Cool it - The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming (2007)
Editor:
- RethinkHIV (2013, Cambridge University Press)
- Global Crises, Smart Solutions (2013, Cambridge University Press)
- The Way the World Is – Scorecard for the 21st Century (2013, Cambridge University Press)
- Latin American Development Priorities (2010, Cambridge University Press)
- Global Crises, Global Solutions (2009, Cambridge University Press)
- Solutions of the World's Biggest Problems (2007, Cambridge University Press)
- How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006, Cambridge University Press)
- Global Crises, Global Solutions (2004, Cambridge University Press)
Testimonials:
"Lomborg is an engaging and passionate speaker. His thought-provoking message on how to prioritise spending to achieve a better world generated lively discussion throughout the conference, and he adapted the address well to our Australian audience. We thank him for helping to make our event a resounding success."
ADC Forum, Hayman Island, Australia 10-12 August, 2012
“Lomborg is an excellent speaker delivering a powerful message. We were delighted to host him in Abu Dhabi as a part of the World Future Energy Summit.”
MASDAR World Future Energy Summit 2012, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
“Bjorn Lomborg is a fearless, unorthodox thinker who has greatly energised the international debate on sustainable growth without falling in the trap of boundless optimism nor in useless pessimism.”
Universiteit van Amsterdam, European Regional Meeting of the Trilateral Commission, The Hague, The Netherlands, November 11-13, 2011
“Bjorn Lomborg attracted more than 540 people to the ISEEE Distinguished Speaker Series – a new attendance record for our seven-year-old series. Bjorn is an excellent speaker, and he delivered an energetic, thoughtful and compelling talk. The feedback we received from the audience and the series sponsor was overwhelmingly positive, both for his talk and his visit to Calgary.”
Mark Lowey, Communications Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Environment and Economy, University of Calgary
“Bjorn is an engaging speaker, making important arguments about a subject of utmost policy relevance. Cool It is an excellent resource debunking recurrent myths about climate change and ways of addressing it, and proposing a bold policy agenda, which has been gaining prominence since the release of the film. My colleagues and I were delighted to host Bjorn in London for a screening and dinner discussion.”
Dalibor Rohac, Legatum Institute
“We engaged Lomborg to speak at the annual District Heating Conference. He delivered a both inspiring and entertaining speech that obviously hit home. He is an excellent speaker with a message that resonates long afterwards. The speech made the attendees talked passionately on the subjects afterwards during the breaks and during the evening dinner. Lomborg is surely on our list of speakers to invite back.”
Pia Zimmermann, DBDH
“Bjorn took part in our inaugural client conference which brought together major investment institutions from around the world. His presentation, 'The Right Investment Strategy to Get a Better World -and Environment' was exceptionally good and warmly received by our clients. He did exactly what we asked by giving a clear and provocative presentation that triggered a lively debate.”
Walter Scott and Partners, Ltd.
“Bjorn recently contributed to a panel discussion for the Swiss Management Association and as expected, he was thought-provoking and entertaining at the same time. It was a pleasure having him on the panel.”
Schweizerische Management Gesellschaft SMG
“Brilliant, challenging and, most of all, sensible. Bjorn Lomborg brings some much needed context to the climate change debate, and he's a wonderfully engaging speaker.”
David Nott President, Reason Foundation