Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change

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Exclusive 'Sceptical environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world

The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today " and "a challenge humanity must confront", in an...

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