Bill Gates says private jet use doesn’t conflict with his climate change philanthropy

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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.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. , rejected accusations of hypocrisy for engaging in philanthropy and advocacy to address climate change, while generating outsized carbon emissions when he travels by private jet.

“Well, I buy the gold standard, of funding Climeworks, to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family’s carbon footprint,” Gates said. 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.

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