Microsoft founder Bill Gates rejected accusations of hypocrisy for engaging in philanthropy and advocacy to address climate change while creating outsized carbon emissions when he travels by private jet in an interview with the BBC that aired last Friday.
Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The first-ever Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit brings together climate leaders to showcase transformative solutions that repair and regenerate the planet.
“Well, I buy the gold standard of, funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family’s carbon footprint,” Gates said.that sells carbon removal to individuals, companies and other buyers with a promise that one of its plants will remove the amount of carbon purchased within six years, using direct air capture — a new technology in which CO2 is sucked from the air and stored underground.
Gates went on to argue that his own investment in clean energy and other environmental and public health programs warrants his travel for those purposes. “I spend billions of dollars on ... climate innovation. So, you know, should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?” Gates asked rhetorically.
Private jet use has recently come under scrutiny from environmental activists, some of whom are calling on nations to
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