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Copenhagen Consensus Center
The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a Denmark-based think tank that grew out of the Copenhagen Consensus. Directed by Bjorn Lomborg, it commissions research to assign priorities to world problems; "We create a framework in which solutions to the world's big problems are prioritized explicitly, with the goal of achieving the most 'good' for people and the planet."
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Naming
The Center's use of the term "Consensus" implies the existence of a consensus that pricing carbon is ineffective, that extends beyond the group's own panel; no evidence that such a consensus exists is presented.
Funding
The Center's website does not appear to disclose its funding sources.
Projects
- The Center's Climate project has a website at [1]; it asserts that "The solution is not to make fossil fuels more expensive; the solution is to make alternative energy cheaper."
In mid-December 2009, Gmail was displaying ads for the the website: "Cutting CO2 Won't Work - www.fixtheclimate.com - Find out what the world’s top economists suggest instead."
According to the website, the economists - Jagdish Bhagwati, Finn E. Kydland, Vernon L Smith, Thomas C. Schelling, and Nancy L Stokey - " including three recipients of the Nobel Prize – met in September (2009) to deliberate and form conclusions about which solution to climate change is the most promising. They created a prioritized list, outlining the most - and least - effective responses to global warming".
On the 15-item list, the approaches involving a carbon tax ranked last; they were 12th through 15th. [ http://fixtheclimate.com/component-1/the-result-prioritization/]
Staff
(as of December 2009 [2])
- Bjorn Lomborg, Director, Adjunct Professor
- Ulrik Larsen, Deputy Director
- Henrik Meyer, Deputy Director
- Maria Jakobsen, Project Manager
- Kasper T. Anderskov, Project Manager
- Katja Johansen, Project Manager
- Kristine Ohrt,Administrative Officer
- David Young, Head of Communications
- Anita O. Nielsen, Communications Manager
- Maja Makwarth, Media Relations Officer
- Sasha Beckmann, Media Relations Officer
Advisory Panel
(as of December 2009[3])
- Professor Henrik Lando of Copenhagen Business School
- Spencer T. Olin Professor Douglass C. North of Washington University in St. Louis
- Professor Martin Paldam of Aarhus University
Contact
Copenhagen Consensus Center
Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone: +45 3815 2255
Email: info.ccc@cbs.dk
Web: http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/
