Bjørn Lomborg on giving green energies priority

After the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks  this year's upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in the Mexican city of Cancún. The expansion of renewable energies rather than the reduction of CO2 emissions should be the top priority, writes political scientist and author Bjørn Lomborg in the business paper Jornal de Negócios: "Now there is research that shows exactly how we can put this approach into action. ... [Climate researchers] Chris Green and Isabel Galiana find that devoting just 0.2 percent of global GDP - roughly 100 billion dollars a year - to green energy R&D would produce the kind of game-changing breakthroughs needed to fuel a carbon-free future. Not only would this be a much less expensive fix than trying to cut carbon emissions, but it would also reduce global warming far more quickly. And, unlike carbon cuts, this is a solution that developing countries would be likely to embrace."

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