Bill Gates speaks about the Sustainable Development Goals

How much can we improve the world by 2030? We asked Bill Gates ...  Gates Foundation #goalkeepers2030

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00:00The world set the Sustainable Development Goals as its aspiration of improving the world by 2030.

00:08It's very important to pay attention to these goals because it's, you know, how we're making

00:13women empowered, how we're improving food security, how we're reducing childhood death.

00:20Sadly, many setbacks, including the pandemic and the Ukrainian war,

00:25mean that we won't achieve many of these goals. That doesn't mean that we should do less. It

00:32really means we should do more, more generous aid to poor countries, more innovation to help

00:37the poor countries. We were on track and making great progress before the pandemic, and we need

00:43to get back to that. Even though there's pressing needs in rich countries, the poor countries don't

00:49get enough of our generosity. How can we change the model to really affect long-lasting change?

00:56Well, the model was working very well up until the pandemic. I mean, we'd cut childhood death

01:02in half since the year 2000. We reduced the burden of the infectious diseases.

01:07We can see how to improve crop productivity pretty dramatically. The current system is okay.

01:13We didn't anticipate the pandemic, and, you know, raising the visibility of the needs of people in

01:21poor countries, we can be more creative about that, but just, you know, tuning that as a priority

01:26within the current system.