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| Where | Online: https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_a_conversation_with_bill_gates/ |
| Organization/Sponsor | Harvard Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store |
| Speaker(s) | Bill Gates and Savannah Guthrie |
| Cost | $32.00 (book included) - see registration link, above |
| Contact Info | science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu |
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. As the book makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
BILL GATES is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen; today he and his wife, Melinda, are cochairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also launched Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies. He and Melinda have three children and live in Medina, Washington.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE is the co-anchor of TODAY and NBC News chief legal correspondent.
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