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People often underestimate how much manufacturing contributes to warming, and some processes such as cement production are currently hard to make more environmentally friendly.

We have to tackle all of the activities listed above, from manufacturing to heating.

So any initiative should be assessed against its ability to make a dent in the 51 billion-one fund that Gates invests through won’t consider any technology that doesn’t have the potential to remove at least 500 million tons annually.

Global annual emissions are roughly 51 billion tons, though that has temporarily dropped perhaps 5% during the pandemic.

And he is remarkably good at decomplexifying the science around climate change and the research into how to prevent it. Why is Gates publishing a book about the climate crisis? He explains that in 2015 he decided that he wanted to do more on the issue, and focused on the goal of helping make clean energy so cheap everywhere in the world that it would overtake fossil fuels.Īs he’d done for public health and education, Gates trained his enormous intellect and resources on the topic. “The case for zero was, and is, rock solid,” Gates writes. To stave off disaster from warming, we need a dramatic reduction across the board by 2050.

Manufacturing things such as cement and steel generates 31% of greenhouse emissions globally, electricity generation represents 27%, agriculture roughly 19%, transportation 16%, and heating and cooling 7%.

Gates is guided by the math of the climate crisis. ( You can read all of our book briefings here.) Gates’s answer to the book’s title emphasizes technology breakthroughs and government policies rather than climate-friendly individual actions, many of which he suggests have more value in spurring politicians and businesses to change rather than in their direct impact.

That imperative is the focus of Bill Gates in his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, published this week. And we all face the imperative to get to net-zero emissions in advanced economies by 2050 to avoid climate catastrophe. Just about every business and employee will feel the impact of climate change, as a result of extreme weather events, government regulations, and changes to their supply chains. You can always reach out to us at with any questions. (You can always easily unsubscribe.) If you are a subscriber, this will just verify your email address. If you’re not already subscribed to our free email newsletter with more content like this, this will sign you up for it.