Danish environmental economist — founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Center — author of The Skeptical Environmentalist — who accepts climate change science but argues that current climate policies are economically inefficient and that other global priorities (malaria, poverty) have higher return on investment.
Creates the cost-benefit framework for global priority-setting — Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus projects bring Nobel-winning economists together to rank global interventions by cost-effectiveness, creating the most rigorous public comparative analysis of how to spend humanitarian resources.
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