Statement of Michael R. Bloomberg, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, on the election of new WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Congratulations to Dr. Tedros on his election today as the next Director-General of the World Health Organization, which has been an important partner for Bloomberg Philanthropies for more than a decade. He […]

On May 19, 2017, Michael R. Bloomberg received an honorary degree and served as Commencement Speaker at the 2017 Villanova University Commencement Ceremony. These are his remarks as delivered. Thank you, and good afternoon everyone. Father Peter and Provost Maggitti, thank you for this honor – and Beth, thank you for that overdone but greatly […]

This evening, the Sierra Club – the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization – celebrated its 125th Anniversary at the Trail Blazers Ball in San Francisco with honorees Shailene Woodley and Michael R. Bloomberg. The Sierra Club’s 125th Anniversary Trail Blazers Ball was held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. […]

UPDATE (June 1, 2017): Alongside the Forum, Bloomberg is establishing the Bloomberg Global Business Council, a select group of 10-20 global business leaders committed to high-impact business leadership. These CEOs are selected as a result of their legacy of leadership, their vision for a better world, and their principled interest in the important role that […]

“We need to keep it open so we have jobs.” Those are the words of a retired miner, explaining why the local mining operation is so important to his community. But he wasn’t talking about a coal mine in Appalachia. He was referring to a local asbestos mine — in Russia. Through the 1970s, the […]

“I never trust air I can’t see.” One of my predecessors as mayor of New York regularly uttered that line to draw laughs. But that was 50 years ago, and the dangers of air pollution weren’t as well known back then. Today, few city dwellers around the world consider air pollution a laughing matter, and […]

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump belittled the concerns of environmentalists and derided the Environmental Protection Agency as an unruly bureaucracy whose regulations made it “impossible for our country to compete” in the global economy. Trump also renounced the historic Paris climate change agreement, and regularly whipped up support for the waning coal industry. He […]

Mike Bloomberg said Monday that despite President Trump’s rhetoric, he would not be able to resuscitate the country’s declining coal mining industry. “In all fairness, he is not going to be able to bring back those jobs,” the billionaire media mogul told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric. “There is nothing that is going to […]

A new CBS poll shows a majority of Americans have a pessimistic outlook for the environment, with 57 percent believing it will be worse for the next generation. A new book by Mike Bloomberg and former Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope offers a more optimistic view. It’s called “Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, […]

Rachel Martin speaks with Mike Bloomberg and former chairman of the Sierra Club Carl Pope about how cities should respond to climate change and their new book, Climate of Hope. Listen now