Bill Gates Calls To Redirect Climate Funds To Preventing Disease, Hunger

Last Updated:October 28, 2025, 21:19 IST

Bill Gates urges shifting resources from climate change to fighting disease and hunger, warning Trump’s USAID cuts threaten global aid

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (File Photo: PTI)

Ahead of the Cop30 climate summit, billionaire investor and philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday called for resources be shifted away from the battle against climate change towards preventing disease and hunger.

Gates, who has been an activist for carbon emissions reductions, has published an essay arguing that resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change and towards preventing disease and hunger.

CNN quoted him as saying that climate change is not going to wipe out humanity and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress.

“Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems," Gates wrote. “We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause."

He further said: “Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise."

He, however, reiterated that the investment to fight climate change must continue but added that President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID threaten a more urgent problem as it would have a global damage to the fight against famine and life-threatening preventable sickness.

The Trump-led administration has removed USAID, an international aid organisation that supplied foreign countries $8 billion as annual support to provide food and medicine to people who otherwise lack access to those life-saving necessities.

“This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries," Gates added.

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