ESEH Notepad.

The article reports that the European Environment Agency (EEA) has commissioned a project to identify a list of conservation projects producing most value for money. The list is to inform future European Union investments in the environment. The author of the best-selling book "The Sceptical Environmentalist," Bjørn Lomborg, is to lead the project. Lomborg believes that the long-term perspective of 50-100 years of climate change studies is irrelevant to the present and next generation, and that we should therefore spend all money on concerns that may be solved in a 10-20 year perspectives and quotes clean water and fighting AIDS as his top priorities. The author in this article in concerned that the EEA embarks on a project that restricts its own priorities to only those that will have marked effect in a 10-20 year perspective. The European Environmental Agency has promised that Lomborg's voice shall not be the only one.