<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bill Gates has called for governments, investors, activists and scientists to change their approach to the climate crisis ahead of next month's COP30 summit in Brazil.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a post on his personal website, the Microsoft founder said that the "doomsday view" of climate change – that it will "decimate civilisation" – is wrong.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity's demise," he wrote. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/year-12-history-exam-error-minister-vows-investigation-after-hundreds-students-taught-wrong-syllabus/77fb717b-1dab-42dd-8fd5-dc7edfb5cbd2"><strong><span>Minister to investigate after year 12s taught wrong subject for final exam</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gates said that, because of that view, there was an overwhelming focus on short-term emissions reduction targets, which is diverting resources away from measures he claimed are more cost-effective at improving people's lives.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/bill-gates-change-climate-change-approach/60f368e2-ff87-4e91-935a-84409aefff58" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pointing to a need for greater innovation – particularly to remove the "green premium", or the extra cost associated with using zero-emissions products – and to better measure the impact of climate initiatives, he wrote that next month's UN climate conference was a perfect opportunity to change approach.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/inflation-australia-september-quarter-cpi/7e486a55-1073-4e32-877b-bce90690255f"><strong><span>Rate cut hopes dealt massive blow as inflation surges again</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives," he said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world's poorest countries.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Understanding this will let us focus our limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/finance/australia-finance-money-missing-super-19-billion/c16d3ca1-86cc-45a3-bb73-b81f5017b9d1"><strong><span>Seven million Aussies don't know they're sitting on enormous pile of cash</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gates, who was previously the world's richest man and currently has a net worth of about $US122 billion ($185 billion), has invested more than $100 billion into charitable causes, and has previously pledged to give away the majority of his fortune before he dies.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Much of his philanthropic work has focused on initiatives such as malaria prevention and climate adaptation, and he stressed in his post that rising global temperatures was still a crucial issue that needs to be urgently addressed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition," Gates wrote.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people's lives…</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems. 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