Bill Gates says he is "jealous" of the annual focus on climate change at the United Nations climate talks and believes progress on global health risks sliding backward as donors increasingly focus their funding on the environment.
Issues such as maternal health and nutrition should top the list on the "report card for humanity," the billionaire philanthropist said at a breakfast event Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
However, he warned that "just because something else is popular, shifting aid in that direction, in the end, we actually could go backwards [on global health]."