Solve the cement challenge: Currently carbon emissions are an unavoidable part of cement making, because of the chemical reactions involved.Its new, expensive, but probably crucial to the world’s chances of getting to net zero, according to Gates. Crack Direct Air Capture: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is the name for technology that sucks carbon emissions out of the air.To ensure it’s used most efficiently nations will need giant transmission lines to shoot power across the country to where it’s needed most. But it is intermittent, created only when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. Connect up the power grids: Renewable electricity will be essential for delivering clean power to cars, homes and businesses of the future.The central question of Gates’ book is how to stop climate change without halting economic development for the world’s poorest. “I own big houses and fly in private planes – in fact, I took one to Paris for the climate conference, so who am I to lecture anyone on the environment?” he says in an extract from the book.īut he insists he is taking steps to reduce his footprint, including spending $7m a year for sustainable jet fuel, offsetting his emissions and supporting the development of green technologies that could deliver large-scale emissions cuts.

However, Mr Gates said his own lavish lifestyle makes him an “imperfect messenger” on climate change, admitting his own carbon footprint is “absurdly high”.

As the book makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.Whitehall to consider carbon footprint as much as value for money when forming Government policy In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain environmental disaster.

$32.00 (book included) - see registration link, aboveĬontact this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical-and accessible-plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.īill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. Harvard Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS TICKETED: REGISTER Where

How to stop climate change bill gates