He has made limited investments in geoengineering, and that might be it. The role of high-risk investing and philanthropy and creating programs like Fellows and Ventures and Catalyst … the role of philanthropy is to start things out, but it’s really government policy has to carry this one.” “In the case of climate change, even the money that I have, if it was all applied in this direction - I put in $2 billion so far and I’ll put in another $2 billion over the next five years - that’s not enough to solve it. While massive, Gates’ wealth - currently estimated at about $124 billion - can’t fix global warming. It’s spent on saving lives, which is still, I think, a super, super important thing.” …The foundation, through its health and reproductive health and agriculture work, it’s helping with climate, but that’s not the primary lens that that foundation money is spent on.
In ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,’ Bill Gates charts a difficult course that might just be doable And that involves, in many cases, giving better seeds to these subsistence farmers so they can deal with drought and floods and higher temperatures. And so between improving health and getting voluntary family planning tools out there, there is a connection with climate.Īlso, our foundation, because of our agriculture work, is the biggest funder of climate adaptation. It also happens that as kids grow up more healthily, their parents choose to have less kids.
“And the returns on that, the impact of that, is phenomenal. “That’s where we’re expert - our malaria team, our vaccine factory team - and that’s where we’re going to stay committed,” Gates said. He’s doing more on climate, but is still focused on global health through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Here are five takeaways from that conversation: In a recent interview about his book, I asked Gates how he viewed his role in the climate crisis, the status of TerraPower and his thoughts on geoengineering - the controversial strategy of helping cool the planet through man-made alterations of the atmosphere. When I talk to people about climate change, I almost always get asked the same question: What can I do to help? Here are some actions individuals can take to move us closer to a zero-carbon future: īut even with Gates’ increasing investments in climate-related initiatives, critics point to shortcomings in his actions, such as his foundation’s struggles to make good on his commitment to divest from fossil fuel interests and his recent investment in a private jet company.
In the book, Gates also shares what other individuals can do to fight climate change.
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