![]() ![]() ![]() For Bill Gates, it all came together around the meetings leading to the 2015 “COP 21” climate change conference held by the UN and the resulting Paris Agreement. Soon, Bill Gates was convinced of three things: to avoid a global climate catastrophe, we have to quickly achieve “net zero” emissions of greenhouse gases we have to deploy tools we already have (like solar and wind power) “smarter and faster ” and we need to create and roll-out “breakthrough technologies” to get us the rest of the way. It dawned on him that for global health and development, energy had to be not only cheap and reliable but also “clean.” Gates was now convinced that “the world needs to provide more energy so that the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases.” Richard Wolfson who gave a series of lectures on the Earth’s Changing Climate. I met with experts on climate and energy, agriculture, oceans, sea levels, glaciers, power lines and more.” Gates read up on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and consulted the work of experts such as Prof. In his words, “I kept learning everything I could about climate change. ![]() It was only later, in 2006, when Bill Gates began to focus on the link between energy and global climate. ![]()
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