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Opinion | How Trump can buy some global climate sanity for less than $2 million

The Washington Post · last updated

Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and author of “False Alarm” and “Best Things First.”

The Trump administration’s effort to audit international commitments through the lens of fiscal discipline and national interest is forcing a reckoning for global institutions. While some of these bodies may struggle to justify their continued funding under rigorous scrutiny, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deserves a reconsideration.