Bill Gates says at Davos that health spending is key to combatting climate change: ‘That’s where you get population growth to a steady state’

Fortune January 16, 2024
Francine Lacqua, Mark Bergen, Bloomberg

Bill Gates believes a key way to combat climate change is improving access to health care in developing countries, an area the billionaire philanthropist worries that governments are neglecting.

“Global health is a little bit off the radar right now,” he said on Tuesday in an interview at the Bloomberg House in Davos. “For the next ten years, where money is going to be so limited, if you want to care about climate impact, the health spending should go up, not down.”Play Video

On Monday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that he co-chairs announced plans to spend $8.6 billion on health care technology and programs in 2024, the largest budget ever for the nonprofit. That includes efforts to...

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