Today, South Africa’s parliament officially adopted a sugary beverage tax, the first significant sugary beverage tax in Sub-Saharan Africa. In response, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases Michael Bloomberg said: “South Africa is the latest in a growing list of countries to recognize that sugary beverages are harmful to health and that taxes work to […]

In response to a new series of “corrective” television and newspaper advertisements by cigarette manufacturers explaining how they willfully misled the public about the negative health effects of tobacco products, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases Michael R. Bloomberg said: “These ads, mandated by a U.S. District Court more than 10 years ago, are a […]

The following is a statement from Mike Bloomberg in response to the U.S. Administration’s event on fossil fuels at COP23 today in Bonn, Germany: “Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit. It’s also a denial of what’s happening in the US – half of all American coal plants […]

By Lisa Friedman  When President Trump announced in June that the United States would withdraw from the Paris agreement, America officially ceded its global leadership on climate change. The retreat had actually begun months earlier, when climate change disappeared from most government websites and vanished from America’s domestic and international agendas. No longer would the […]

The following is the text of Mike Bloomberg’s speech as prepared on Saturday, November 11th, 2017. “Thank you, Laurence, for the introduction, and for the great work you’re leading through the European Climate Foundation, which Bloomberg Philanthropies is glad to support. The organization has a great track record helping speed the transition to clean energy […]

By Lisa Friedman The office of the official American delegation at the international climate talks here is almost always closed. A sign taped to the door informs the curious that entry is for authorized staff members only. But there’s another group of Americans who are happy to be found. They are gathered in a nearly […]

COP 23 Special Advisor for States and Regions California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Michael R. Bloomberg, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, released the America’s Pledge report today at the U.S. Climate Action Pavilion, a purpose-built exhibition space sponsored by U.S. non-federal leaders at a United Nations climate […]

The following is the text of Mike Bloomberg’s speech as prepared on Saturday, November 11th, 2017. Watch Mike Bloomberg and Governor Brown’s remarks here “Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for your leadership here at COP 23 – and for your work supporting action against climate change in every sector of society. Good morning everyone – […]

The battle to end coal-burning, backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, is expanding out of the US and around the world in its bid to reduce the global warming threat posed by the most polluting fossil fuel. Bloomberg, a UN special envoy on climate change and former mayor of New York city, has funded a $164m […]

Mike Bloomberg released the following statement on recent reporting that the Trump Administration will focus on fossil fuels at the upcoming UN COP conference in Bonn, Germany, during which Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown will host an America’s Pledge event to highlight aggressive, ongoing climate action by U.S. cities, states, businesses, and organizations in […]