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Bill Gates warns that prioritising the fight against rising temperatures above all else means that issues such as human health and equality risk being overshadowed.Credit: Bloomberg<\/p>\n
According to Gates, who has long stood out as a vocal defender of the need to fight global warming, prioritising the fight against rising temperatures above all else means that issues such as human health and equality risk being overshadowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cClimate change is serious, but we\u2019ve made great progress,\u201d he said in the memo. \u201cWe need to keep backing the breakthroughs that will help the world reach zero emissions. But we can\u2019t cut funding for health and development \u2014 programs that help people stay resilient in the face of climate change \u2014 to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough climate change will have serious consequences \u2014 particularly for people in the poorest countries \u2014 it will not lead to humanity\u2019s demise,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPeople will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Many climate experts have called for greater focus on helping people adapt to climate-amplified extreme weather as emissions cuts fail to materialise quickly enough, leading to worse and more frequent natural disasters. Gates\u2019 intervention, ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, echoes demands made by poorer countries for more funding to support early warning systems, more resilient food and water supplies, and health care infrastructure. It\u2019s also an area of growing interest for investors.<\/p>\n
Wealthier regions including Europe also face growing threats from extreme weather, Irene Heemskerk, head of the climate change centre at the European Central Bank, said at an event on Tuesday. Water scarcity and floods \u201care putting the economic output of Europe at risk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on CNBC on Tuesday morning, Gates said his latest assessment of the climate problem was partly motivated by cuts to aid budgets made by the Trump administration and other rich countries. \u201cThe plea here is to say, OK, let\u2019s take that very limited money and not have some partitioned off for particular causes.\u201d He described the US government\u2019s decision to cut climate and clean energy programs a \u201chuge disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, says it\u2019s time to adopt a more measured tone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-247274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}