US EditionBill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering
Bill Gates calls for prioritizing reducing poverty and disease over emissions cuts, highlighting the need to improve lives in the poorest countries, ahead of the COP30 climate summit.
- Bill Gates released a 17-page memo Tuesday urging a strategic pivot from limiting temperature rise to fighting poverty and disease ahead of next month's United Nations climate change conference in Brazil.
- A doomsday outlook has led the climate community toward near-term emissions goals, which Gates says diverts resources from the most effective ways to improve life in poorest countries.
- Gates noted that Gavi, public-private partnership started by the Gates Foundation, will have 25% less funding for five years while vaccines can save a life for a little more than $1,000.
- Some experts welcomed the human-health emphasis, with Kristie Ebi agreeing on U.N. focus, while Jeffrey Sachs called it `pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing`; Gates criticized foreign aid cuts as adaptation funding shrinks.
- Gates said governments should drive the difference to zero and be rigorous about measuring impacts, as scientists warn crossing the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold may be nearly unavoidable by early 2028.
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Ahead of COP30 in Brazil, billionaire Bill Gates urged world leaders to prioritise health, poverty, and human development over climate politics. He warned that the poorer nations face the harshest impacts of climate change.
[Yomiuri Shimbun] [Washington = Keiichi Nakane] Microsoft founder Bill Gates said on the 28th to world leaders attending the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), which will open in Brazil on November 10th, "We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and temperature changes.
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