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Since nuclear power is the costliest way to replace fossil fuels, every dollar spent on it displaces less climatic risk than would have been avoided if that same dollar were spent instead on techniques to use energy more efficiently,
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
farm scale or centralized digesters for biogas generation and utilization
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
The fourth scenario is different. For ten years, $250 billion is invested in a trust fund. This trust fund finances a century-long programme of emission abatement such that the NPV of the abatement cost over the century equals $2 trillion. This is achieved by a uniform carbon tax for all countries, which starts at $12/tC in 2010 and rises with the
... See moreBjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
På valgkamptur i Nord-Norge i 2021 viste han til et internt Sp-notat som slo fast at utgiftene til nytt regjeringskvartal kunne reduseres med hele 15 milliarder kroner.
Om lag halve summen skulle spares inn ved å kutte ut byggetrinn to og tre.
– Du kan få gratis ferjer i 23 år på de nordlige ferjestrekningene med under 100.000 passasjerer årlig bare
... See moreKristian Skårdalsmo • Den Nye Statsråden Har Arvet en Byggeplass
most studies put the total WTP for nature conservation at substantially less than 1% of income
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
spending the equivalent of $2 trillion just on CH4 emission reductions in just the next ten years probably belongs in the realm of fiction,
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
economic growth forgone by stringent abatement of GHGs would more than offset the avoided impacts of climate change, at least in the case of malaria.