Published 19:23 IST, October 11th 2019
Bill Gates' new book about climate change is coming in July 2020
Bill Gates' new book will be about climate change and will look at possible solutions to prevent an environmental crisis, UK based Allen Lane has announced.
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Founder of Microsoft Corporation and American philanthropist Bill Gates' new book will be about climate change and will look at possible solutions to prevent an environmental crisis, UK-based publishing house Allen Lane has anunced. In How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Solutions We Have and Breakthroughs We Need, Gates will explain why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that world can prevent worst impacts of climate crisis.
Solutions identified by Gates for Climate change
"Climate change is a unique global problem. I am writing this book to help identify how we can work on a local, national, and global level to build techlogies, businesses, and industries to avoid worst impacts of climate change," Gates said. In book, he will share what he has learned in over a dece of studying climate change and investing in invations to dress problems. "As a techlogist, he has seen first-hand how invation can change world. By investing in research, inventing new techlogies, and by deploying m quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be dressed in meaningful ways," publishers said in a statement.
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Climate change will have biggest impact on people
author's interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of efforts by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to him, will have biggest impact on people who have done least to cause it. According to Allen Lane, book will set out a vision for how world can work to build tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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"To prevent worst effects of climate change, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This problem is urgent, and debate is complex, but I believe we can come toger to invent new carbon-zero techlogies, deploy ones we have, and ultimately avoid a climate catastrophe," Gates said.
"How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Solutions We Have and Breakthroughs We Need" will hit stands on June 24, 2020.
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17:16 IST, October 11th 2019