Bill and Melinda Gates Unveil Big Plan for the Environment

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-and-melinda-gates-unveil-big-plan-for-the-environment?ref=home

Molly C. Enking at the Daily Beast


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In their annual letter, Gates and his wife Melinda hone in on what he says are the “five grand challenges” to combating climate change and global warming: agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation. Bill Gates wrote that Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the $1 billion fund he’s a partner in, will be using the “five challenges” as a guide for all future investments they make, which will focus on where emissions come from.

“It’s important that people know that electricity, it’s only a quarter of the emissions,” Gates said in a promo video for the letter. “Things like cement, steel, meat—there’s a lot of other activities that are generating 75 percent of it.

“Solar panels are great, but we should be hearing about trucks, cement, and cow farts too,” he wrote.

Gates isn’t the first to hone in on new solutions for the climate crisis that go beyond solar panels and wind turbines. In Paul Hawken’s 2017 book “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming,” number one suggestion for eliminating 85 percent of emissions was ‘Refrigerator management’. And the Special Report on Global Warmingby the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released just this year calls for deep reductions in methane emissions—like the aforementioned cow farts.


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