We should avoid expensive climate change policies ‘that don’t help the future’

Bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg says global warming is a real problem, and its something which should be fixed, but "we should fix it smartly. Mr Lomborg said the world needs to look to at what the UN says on climate economics to ensure it doesnt do too little in responding to climate change, but also doesnt do too much. He said if every country in the world did what they promised to combat climate change under the Paris agreement, for the rest of the century, temperature would reduce by 0.18 degrees centigrade, and it would cost between $60 to $100 trillion to achieve that. There is a real argument to be said, theres a problem waiting for us over the next 80 years and onward, we should make sensible policies to make sure that problem does becomes slightly smaller for cheap policies that we can enact today, Mr Longborn told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. What we should make sure we dont do, is make expensive policies that have almost no impact in a hundred years, which basically makes us poorer but doesnt help the future. Image: Getty Read More Our Apps