Gates Urges Investors to Put Money in Climate Adaptation

Bill Gates wants investors and governments to put more money into protecting lives on a warmer planet. In a lengthy memo, he lays out his current view of the climate problem and concludes that “human welfare” must be the top priority.Meanwhile, the first-ever decline in global emissions is just around the corner, the UN says. By 2035, they’ll have fallen 10% from 2019 levels, an unequivocal sign that humanity is bending the curve and cutting the greenhouse gas pollution that’s baking the planet.