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16 de feb. de 2021 · As bad as the pandemic has been, climate change will be even worse if we do not start applying the same spirit of global collaboration right now to address it. Within decades, climate change impacts could kill nearly three times as many people per year as COVID did in 2020, and its economic costs will be as bad as having a COVID-sized pandemic every 10 years.
In the latest episode of my podcast, I talked to author and researcher Hannah Ritchie about why there are more reasons for hope than one might think. This is Bill Gates's blog, where he shares about the people he meets, the books he's reading, and what he's learning. Read, watch, and join the conversation!
2/1/2024 6:00:00 PM. When I start to feel overwhelmed by the climate challenges we face, I turn to Hannah Ritchie, a researcher at Our World in Data. Her data-driven approach is an essential antidote to environmental doomsday-ism and provides some much-needed optimism about humanity’s ability to tackle big problems.
Bill Gates finds reasons for optimism in solving climate change by developing innovative breakthroughs to provide cheap, clean energy at scale.
22 de dic. de 2021 · In a series of tweets late Tuesday, Bill Gates says he plans to cancel most of his holiday plans and warned that that the United States “could be entering the worst part of the pandemic.”
23 de abr. de 2021 · It was a great way to build momentum for the big United Nations conference on climate change—known as the COP26—that will take place in November in Glasgow, Scotland. I took the opportunity to talk about the three things we need to do to avoid a climate disaster. Here’s the text of my remarks. Leaders Summit on Climate. April 23, 2021.
15 de may. de 2022 · Gates is in London today, Paris tomorrow, to promote his new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. (Somewhat ironically, he appears to have caught Covid-19 on the promotional tour.)
