Basically, Microsoft will pay others to use renewable electricity, plant trees or biofuels, restore nature or capture carbon dioxide directly from power stations or the atmosphere and dump it deep in the Earth. But here is the issue their current plan to reach these targets is to reduce their emissions as much as possible, but then to discount the rest of their emissions by using carbon offsets or credits. Even more ambitiously, it has pledged to remove all the carbon pollution from the atmosphere that they and their supply chain have emitted since the founding of the company in 1975 by 2050.

In 2020, the company announced the ambitious target to go carbon negative by 2030. For the great monolithic global corporation, Microsoft is following his lead and taking climate change seriously. It is important to remember that this book is not just rhetoric: Bill Gates is putting his money where his mouth is, both through his Foundation and the company he founded, Microsoft. So, Bill Gates went on a journey of discovery and like all super-nerds wanted to find the most efficient technological solutions to the climate crisis. Second was that all the improvements in global health could be wiped out by climate change-which will increase both food and water insecurity for billions of people. First was that global health and development were being held back by a lack of access to affordable energy: 860 million people still have no access to electricity-which raises the question how to produce this electricity. Two important facts emerged from the funded work of the Gates Foundation. So why has Bill Gates become passionate about climate change and now sees it as the greatest threat to humanity? It all starts with his work with his wife Melinda at the Gates Foundation which was originally focused on global health, development and US education. When it is Bill Gates a leader of the tech revolution and it is about climate change, then it becomes a phenomenon. When one of the richest men in the world writes a book, people usually take notice.

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