Become a BusinessGreen member

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

Juliette Jowit, the Guardian - Published under license by

31 August 2010 • 5 min read

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...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Oil sands polluting river with heavy metals, say researchers

BP prepares to shoulder some of the blame for Gulf spill

More on Climate change

Climate change

Shift towards plant-rich diet could more than halve global food system emissions

Reshaping food systems around plant-rich diets could prevent up to 15 million premature deaths a year while slashing global emissions, new study finds

Stuart Stone

03 October 2025 • 6 min read

Climate change

'Drought-flation' is driving the cost-of living crisis

To secure affordable food, reduce economic shocks, and safeguard rural livelihoods, we need to start by improving the health of the earth beneath our feet, writes Praveena Sridhar from the Save Soil Movement

Praveena Sridhar, Save Soil Movement

01 October 2025 • 4 min read