On this pressing, authoritative guide, Invoice Gates units out a wide-ranging, sensible – and accessible – plan for a way the world can get to zero greenhouse gasoline emissions in time to keep away from a local weather disaster.

Invoice Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and results of local weather change. With the assist of specialists in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has targeted on what have to be completed so as to cease the planet’s slide towards sure environmental catastrophe. On this guide, he not solely explains why we want to work towards net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but additionally particulars what we want to do to obtain this profoundly essential purpose.

He offers us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new concepts into the market, he describes the areas by which know-how is already serving to to scale back emissions, the place and how the present know-how could be made to perform extra successfully, the place breakthrough applied sciences are wanted, and who’s engaged on these important improvements. Lastly, he lays out a concrete, sensible plan for reaching the purpose of zero emissions-suggesting not solely insurance policies that governments ought to undertake, however what we as people can do to hold our authorities, our employers, and ourselves accountable on this essential enterprise.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster PDF

Author(s): Bill Gates

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Year: 2021

ISBN: 2019059396