If the world’s governments — including our own — focus on a dozen challenges, it will put the most money where it does the most good

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Bjorn Lomborg on COP28.

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Bjorn Lomborg on COP28.

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg says we waste money in the fight against climate change.

Bjorn Lomborg he points out that the costs of our climate promises would be higher than the total tax intake of all governments across the world today, far exceeding the benefits of climate change mitigation.

Bjorn Lomborg points out that the costs of our climate promises would be higher than the total tax intake of all governments across the world today, far exceeding the benefits of climate change mitigation.

As COP28 opens, two new studies show that extravagant climate promises are far more wasteful than useful.

When the COVID pandemic hit, the whole world urgently needed to buy protective gear, oxygen and ventilators. The countries that moved fastest and made the best spending decisions had electronic procurement systems in place. These systems not only help in a crisis but are crucial for reducing corruption and saving governments billions of dollars.

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.

The constant barrage of negative stories may lead us to imagine that our progress is about to end, but the evidence says otherwise