UN to Elon Musk: Here's how we would spend your money to fight global hunger

Prompted by a challenge from Tesla founder Elon Musk, the United Nations has released plan for how it would spend nearly $7 billion to combat hunger around the world.

The proposal comes three weeks after David Beasley, executive director of the UN's World Food Programme, or WFP, told CNN that roughly 2% of Musk's $279 billion net worth could help end hunger. He later specified in a tweet that a $6.6 billion donation would "avert famine" next year.

After seeing the interview, Musk said on Twitter that he would immediately sell shares of the electric car company, which is worth more than $1 trillion, if the UN could explain how the money would "solve" hunger.