Bill Gates Says Climate Spending Should Be Cut to Fight Poverty and Disease

Bill Gates has urged the global community to reduce spending on climate change initiatives and redirect resources toward fighting poverty, hunger, and disease. He argued that excessive focus on cutting carbon emissions has led to wasteful spending and distracted attention from more urgent humanitarian crises.

Source CNN

While Gates acknowledged the importance of clean energy investments, he emphasized that aid should be balanced — with greater attention to helping people in the world’s poorest regions who suffer from preventable illnesses and lack of food and clean water.

Gates said his statement was not a rejection of climate action but a call for a “measured response,” arguing that humanity’s top goal should be preventing suffering now, rather than chasing long-term environmental targets through expensive and inefficient programs.