{"id":151824,"date":"2025-11-24T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151824\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:35:11","slug":"bill-gates-rebuked-by-island-states-for-downplaying-climate-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151824\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Rebuked by Island States for Downplaying Climate Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Nations among the most vulnerable to the damage wrought by global warming have decried the recent memo by Bill Gates criticizing a \u201cdoomsday view of climate change.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Gates said last month that prioritizing the climate fight above all else risks overshadowing issues such as health and equality. He said human welfare should be put at the \u201cheart\u201d of strategies to deal with rising temperatures, and has since pledged to give $1.4 billion to farmers to adapt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nations among the most vulnerable to the damage wrought by global warming have decried the recent memo by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,3071,390,273,21139,14934,3090,2518,111,139,69,78960,147,10097,16940],"class_list":{"0":"post-151824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-equality","13":"tag-farming","14":"tag-global-warming","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-palau","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-tourism","22":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}