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.
Ahead of COP30, a climate summit, Philanthropist and Co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates appealed to the world leaders on Tuesday to focus on the health conditions of the citizens and shift to deteriorating economic balance over climate disbalance. He indicated that instead of focusing much more on the climate crisis —which is also an important factor— people living in poorer countries will face significant damage.
COP 30 is scheduled for November 6–7, 2025 in the city of Belem in Brazil. The main motto of this summit will be addressing challenges for combating climate change. Heads of different states and governments will be actively taking part in the summit. Convened by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the summit will mark a central milestone in the process of international mobilization and dialogue on the global climate agenda.
Bill Gates talking to his Gates Notes website said that in recent times “cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization.”
Talking about COP30, he quoted that the next month’s global climate summit in Brazil, known as COP30, is an “excellent place to begin, especially because the summit’s Brazilian leadership is putting climate adaptation and human development high on the agenda.”
Prevent sufferings of poorer countries
Gates asks to shift and refocus on improving lives. While the chief goal is suffering, we should also shift our focus towards those living in the toughest conditions in the poorest countries.
Climate change will hurt people who are deprived of social needs. Gates wrote, “The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been. Understanding this will let us focus our limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people.”
He added, “I know that some climate advocates will disagree with me, call me a hypocrite because of my own carbon footprint (which I fully offset with legitimate carbon credits), or see this as a sneaky way of arguing that we shouldn’t take climate change seriously.”
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