WSJ Opinion: Trump Takes Aim At Europe's Climate Policies

If you don’t learn from history, you’re bound to repeat it. Here in Saint-Denis, northern Paris, a history lesson is sorely needed.

Thousands are gathering here for the 21st international global warming meeting. Hotels are already near-full, broadcasters are setting up, protestors are preparing to roar.

All because this summit is "the last chance" to avert dangerous temperature rises, if we listen to the Earth League or a bunch of others. It’s going to be "too late" if a meaningful treaty isn’t negotiated here in the next few days, says the French president.

By refusing to prioritise, the UN ensured none of their goals would succeed

The international development system is in disarray. Aid budgets have been slashed in the UK and abroad, USAID has been gutted, and the development banks like the World Bank divert ever more of their funding to climate even as global poverty reduction has slowed.

Sky News host Chris Kenny says this is a “good time to be alive” as living standards throughout history are at their highest in the modern day. Mr Kenny sat down with Copenhagen Consensus Centre President Bjorn Lomborg to discuss why the world is not falling apart.