Bjorn Lomborg Cost Quotations

Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

We're talking about probably five to eight trillion dollars on the total cost of global warming, and we'd much rather not have that.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.