Bill Gates' pivot away from bold climate action misses key challenges

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Bill Gates’ call for the United Nations (UN) to pivot from climate action focused on temperature goals to vaccines has misread the challenge we face. Investments in climate mitigation and development are not competing priorities. On the contrary, with the World Health Organization projecting that climate change will cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, climate action is also health action.

 

All those attending the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém this week should keep this insight in mind. But Mr Gates is right that we must deliver real solutions, and, as the Brazilian government