News Summary

• Bill Gates says the international community needs to focus more on global poverty and less on emissions cuts.
• It is time to move beyond the doomsday narratives that have dominated the climate discussion in recent years.
• Climate change is a real problem, but it is — literally — not the end of the world.
• If it’s not addressed, climate economicsshows that it might shave two to three per cent off global GDP by 2100 — meaning we’ll be 435 per cent richer instead of 450 per cent.