Who’s Who | The Big Push Forward Rosalind Eyben Rosalind Eyben is one of the co-convenors of the Big Push Forward. She has been a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies where she is a member of the Participation, Power and Social Change team [link] where she works on power and relations in the international aid system. She was previously employed by the UK Department for International Development and before that as consultant and adviser to the ILO, FAO and other United Nations agencies. Irene Guijt Irene Guijt is one of the co-convenors of the Big Push Forward. Cathy Shutt Cathy Shutt is facilitator of the Value for Money thematic cluster. Chris Roche Chris Roche is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Brendan Whitty Brendan Whitty is a facilitator of the ‘driving change’ thematic cluster.
Copenhagen Consensus 2012 | Copenhagen Consensus Center The third Copenhagen Consensus was a year-long project involving more than 65 researchers tasked with setting priorities among a series of proposals to confront ten great global challenges. A panel of economic experts, comprising some of the world’s most distinguished economists, was invited to consider these issues. The ten Assessment Papers, commissioned from acknowledged authorities in each area of policy, included nearly 40 proposals for the panel’s consideration. Fighting malnourishment should be the top priority for policy-makers and philanthropists The Expert Panel was presented with nearly 40 investment proposals designed by experts to reduce the challenges of Armed Conflict, Biodiversity Destruction, Chronic Disease, Climate Change, Education Shortages, Hunger and Malnutrition, Infectious Disease, Natural Disasters, Population Growth, and Water and Sanitation Shortages.
WBCSD-SNV Alliance: Creating inclusive business opportunities by linking local communities with big business Bjorn Lomborg, essayiste et auteur de "L'écologiste sceptique" avec Claude Allègre Spécialisée en géopolitique, stratégie, défense, histoire des religions au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique, elle collabore à FRANCE 24 depuis 2007 et présente l'Entretien. Ex-auditrice de l’IHEDN, elle a été reporter pour Radio France, France 3 et TV5. Growing Inclusive Markets | Business works for development | Development works for business Bjorn Lomborg's Dirty Little Math | CleanTechnicaCleanTechnica Cars Published on March 17th, 2013 | by NRDC By Max Baumhefner A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by Bjorn Lomborg, “Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret,” argues that even though driving on electricity emits half as much pollution as driving on gasoline, it never makes up for the additional energy it takes to build electric cars. Lomborg’s argument rests on the reasoning included in this sentence: “If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar-size gasoline-powered car driven the same number of miles.” The premise that the typical electric car will only be driven 50,000 miles is fanciful. Lomborg also claims that cars charged with electricity made from coal are dirtier than gasoline vehicles. And that’s today. Max Baumhefner is an attorney, outdoor enthusiast, and a bread baker. About the Author
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Since the TED Talk: Bjorn Lomborg still thinking about evil economics In 2005, Bjorn Lomborg bounced onto the TED stage in Monterey to challenge the assembled audience to think about “the biggest problems in the world.” Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate changeAuthor of the book The Skeptical Environmentalist and the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, Lomborg promptly advised the somewhat startled audience to forget about global warming. If we really want to make an impact on the serious issues of our time, he said, we have to look beyond the dramatic images and histrionic headlines that fill our newspapers, and instead calmly and rationally focus on tackling issues we might actually solve once and for all. “It’s when economics gets evil,” he said cheerfully. Back then, Lomborg was presenting the results of the first Copenhagen Consensus, for which he had convened a group of 30 of the world’s top economists to prioritize global problems according to how quickly and efficiently they might be solved.
WASTE 10 German Solar Energy Myths Bjørn Lomborg is Spreading Clean Power Published on March 2nd, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan No doubt, you’ve heard about Germany’s likely decision to quickly and severely cut its solar PV feed-in tariff policy, a world-leading solar policy that has made Germany a solar power hero of sorts. A friend recently shared a story by Bjørn Lomborg on these cuts with me and asked me for my opinion. It’s taken me a few days to get to it because Lomborg’s piece is so full of myths and lies, but before I get to debunking Lomborg’s claims, let’s have a little context. Who is Bjørn Lomborg? Lomborg is infamous for denying the need for clean energy action to stop human-caused global warming, and for claiming that scientists’ concerns about global warming are overblown. Lomborg has flipped and flopped a bit in the past few years, but he has stuck to his completely odd idea that deploying clean energy now isn’t the best way of responding to global warming (again, going against a large consensus on the matter by experts in the field). 1.
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Column: U.S. shouldn't be picking Solyndras The lesson from the federal government's failed backing of Solyndra is not that the United States should abandon energy innovation. It is that the government should not try to pick industry winners in the race to replace fossil fuels with an alternative. Solyndra is the now-bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer that received a $535 million federal loan guarantee in 2009 to build a factory based on the proposition that solar power should be captured through solar cylinders rather than the more established technology of silicon wafers. Solyndra lost the gamble on its technology — and taxpayers lost a half-billion dollars. Make no mistake, the long road to ending reliance on fossil fuels will be littered with many technologies that fail to live up to early promise. The idea of capturing the sun's power through solar cylinders might have been a great idea, but the government should instead have spent half a million dollars on funding researchers to investigate such technology.
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