Bill Gates On The Climate Emergency

Bill Gates: Climate change could be more devastating than Covid-19 pandemic—this is what the US must do to prepare

Catherine Clifford, January 8, 2021 (CNBC)

As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse.” So says billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates…To prevent the deaths, damage and destruction that will come with a warming planet requires innovation, he said…[And the relatively small decline in emissions this year shows flying and driving less] is not enough, Gates said…And innovation to fight climate change must start urgently…To do that, the United States needs to have the equivalent of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for energy innovation, Gates said…

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…[A National Institutes of Energy Innovation is the] most important thing the U.S. can do to lead the world in innovations that will solve climate change…[and] NIH should serve as a model for the proposed National Institutes of Energy Innovation because the NIH has been so successful, according to Gates…Specifically, Gates suggested the National Institutes of Energy Innovation should be composed of institutes with specific areas of focus, and each group would work to take an idea from the research lab to market…” click here for more

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