Bill Gates says malnutrition is the “world’s worst child health crisis" and climate change will only worsen it.

This is true for nearly every issue the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works on, from poverty reduction to primary-school enrolment. But nowhere is the contrast more stark or tragic than in health. Between 2000 and 2020 the world witnessed a global health boom.

Bill Gates, in light of climate change, highlights the rising crisis of child malnutrition. By 2050, millions more children will face stunted growth and wasting. Gates calls for increased funding for nutrition initiatives to combat these issues,

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.

Malnutrition is the world's worst child health crisis and climate change will only make things more severe, according to Microsoft-co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates. Between now and 2050, 40 million more children will have stunted growth and 28 million more will suffer from wasting,

In 2023, the World Health Organization estimated that 148 million children experienced stunted growth and 45 million suffered from wasting

The report projects that without immediate global action, climate change will condemn an additional 40 million children to stunting and 28 million more to wasting between 2024 and 2050