The president of Copenhagen's consensus, Bjorn Lomberg, spoke to Fox Business on the sidelines of the ARC conference in London.
Only one month of work and President Donald Trump Is making big changes in the state. This includes energy policy that is crucial to the economy.
Trump has to do a few things, Bjorn Lomborg, political science scientist and head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, told Fox Business on this three -day margin Alliance for Citizenship responsible Conference (arc) last week in London.
“We need to get more energy because we know that life's blood energy ensures that you have very prosperous societies … he will do it.”
This is a different approach to energy policy that the Democrats took early in the decade. In 2022, the number of federal drilling permits approved by the Biden Government, which had fallen last year.
Bjorn Lomberg spoke at a unity at the Citizenship Conference in London, February 2025. (Arc/Andrew Parsons/Parsons Media)
But with a new government, an energy policy shake is underway. Earlier this month, a White House note announced the formation of the National Council of Energy to help “US energy release”. The note says that it means cutting red tape and increasing energy production.
However, Lomborg told Fox Business that there is more. “There are many people around the world who are very concerned about climate change,” he says.
“The way to do this is a significant decline in the overall budget, but it is less” clever “to innovate, which ultimately eliminates climate change,” Lomborg said. “This will be much cheaper,” he said. “He says he will be a suitable allocation of $ 30 billion, which he uses as” round error in most US conversations in cheap, free and effective energy development. “
But Lemburg about whether the phrase has different views “Drill drill” It is useful in making energy policy. “This is the way you know, burn a lot of votes and also hurt a lot of people,” he says. “I think we probably don't have to say that. But basically, this shows you what energy the world is cheap and available.”
Lomborg said, and it is clear that the world needs more energy. “It is easy for rich people in the wealthy world to say,” he said, referring to wealthy countries such as the United States and Western Europe. “But most people in this world are extremely poor and need much more energy. So, in this way, Trump is quite right.”
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The poorer countries are largely relied on fossil fuels such as coal, which is because it is much cheaper than green technologies. “Imagine if we could make the fourth -generation nuclear cheaper than fossil fuels,” said Lemburg. “We not only put the United States and Europe on the board but also the Chinese and Africans.” In other words, lower -priced clean energy can ride more countries with newer energy technology.
An area that does not seem to have sustainable energy policy, especially Europe England And Germany, the two largest economies in that part of the world.
Germany made major changes in energy policy a decade and a half ago and included a tendency to green. “In 2010, Germany acquired 79.6 % of its energy from fossil fuels,” Lomborg told Fox Business. “Quick to 2023 and they still receive 79.3 % of its energy from fossil fuels.” At least part of Germany's situation is due to its decision to reduce its nuclear power production to a small part of what was in 2010.
Britain also has its own energy challenges. Since 2003, electricity prices for British households and jobs have increased triple. “This is a real move for the economy,” said Lemburg. He points out that higher energy costs are likely to lead industrial companies from Europe to countries such as China and India.
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President Donald Trump signs a set of executive orders at the White House office on February 10. (Andrew Harnic / Giti Pictures / Giti Pictures)
In The United Nations “We need a place where all nations can meet and talk,” he said. According to this, he rushed to reach Net-Zero, does not mean that carbon is not published until 2050. “We can't do it at all … this will be extraordinary, and especially for this will be very traumatic. Poor countries.”
“I think what President Trump now says is that we have to get out of this path and take a smarter path,” Lembourg told Fox News.