The payoff in lives and hospital time saved runs at about 100 to 1 per dollar invested, which is a great deal by any standard. Vaccines save millions of lives every year. So it’s worrying that the U.S. government wants to cut funding for a key organization that enables immunization around the world.

Last month, the International Court of Justice issued a sweeping ruling on the legal duties of states to respond to climate change, demanding “deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in emissions and opening the door to lawsuits for climate reparations. The ruling is a landmark moment in international law that deserves more attention than it has gotten: In essence, the United Nations’ highest court has deemed climate inaction a human rights violation and an infringement of international law.

Copenhagen Consensus President Bjorn Lomborg discusses the cost of Democrats' green energy push on 'Fox & Friends.'

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pulled the plug on funding for GAVI, the global vaccine alliance. Every government needs to choose how to spend its own taxpayer money, of course, and the U.S. is far from the only country cutting back on aid. But childhood immunization is actually one of the best ways to make the world stronger and more stable.

Gavi and malaria aid in particular provide incredible returns in social benefits for each dollar spent.

The European Union is offering Democrat-led states a cautionary tale in how to hamstring an entire economy in the name of green dogma — while failing to solve climate change.

Blue states are sending delegates to Europe to learn how to implement climate policies, egged on by progressive think-tanks. But Europe, which has pursued “green” policies more fervently than even California, is a model of what not to do.

Across the United States and Europe, the media are warning of dangerously high temperatures.

“Extreme Heat Is Breaking America,” warns the New York Times. “Lethal heat is Europe’s new climate reality,” adds Politico.

It’s an annual routine: Expect to be inundated with alarming stories about heat domes, heat deaths and heat waves, pointing to the urgency of climate action.

But this narrative will tell you only a misleading fraction of the story.

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.

Freer trade has costs, especially in rich countries. But its benefits are seven times greater — and 95 times greater in poor countries

Countries like Germany make a show of their virtue and insist that Africa remain impoverished.

Rich Western nations and their development banks love to parade their climate virtue and wag their fingers at Africa. They insist that the continent leapfrog from no energy to trendy renewables like solar and wind, even as wealthy nations run mostly on fossil fuels. With the biggest voting share in the World Bank, the U.S. has effective veto power over major decisions at the globe’s largest multilateral organization—and the moral duty to put its foot down.