Microsoft cofounder & Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair says local innovations in tackling climate change and health are worth emulating elsewhere
More than two decades ago, I set out to give the vast majority of my resources back to society. My goal from the beginning was to help reduce the awful inequities I saw around the world.
The twin problems
When I started this work, my biggest focus was global health, because it’s the worst inequity in the world and it’s a solvable problem. That’s still the case today. But as time went on – and as the disastrous consequences of a warming world became more evident – it became clear that you can’t improve life for the world’s poorest without also tackling climate change.
The twin problems
When I started this work, my biggest focus was global health, because it’s the worst inequity in the world and it’s a solvable problem. That’s still the case today. But as time went on – and as the disastrous consequences of a warming world became more evident – it became clear that you can’t improve life for the world’s poorest without also tackling climate change.