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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates.In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it.
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
Bill Gates said 2024 brought a corporate "pivot" toward climate tech, in a foreword to a new report. The report, by Gates's firm Breakthrough Energy, urged VCs to "prime the pump" on climate startups.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates rejected accusations of hypocrisy over using a private jet and his advocacy on addressing climate change, in an interview with the BBC that aired last Friday.
At New York Climate Week in September, his perspectives on climate change did not go unnoticed–and even made waves. Essentially, his argument is that emissions will peak and then start to go down.
A complementary initiative of Gates, Mission Innovation, was announced at the same time. [2] In December 2016, a group of investors collectively worth US$170 billion announced more personal commitment to funding the efforts of a US$1 billion fund "focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation." The fund is named ...
Gates cited a reason for thinking it won't be as bad as it once looked: Since 2015, until last year, the world went on a “gigantic” innovation binge in efforts that could help curb climate change.
The era of “global boiling” is here, with United Nations scientists warning that drastic steps are needed to prevent climate change catastrophe. But Bill Gates is still optimistic that it won ...