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Feb 14, 2021 · The key to addressing climate change is to make clean energy just as cheap and reliable as what we get from fossil fuels. In this excerpt from his book 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster' Bill Gates shares several ideas for how individuals can help realize a zero-carbon future.
- Spread the word. Encourage your friends, family and co-workers to reduce their carbon pollution. Join a global movement like Count Us In, which aims to inspire 1 billion people to take practical steps and challenge their leaders to act more boldly on climate.
- Keep up the political pressure. Lobby local politicians and businesses to support efforts to cut emissions and reduce carbon pollution. # ActNow Speak Up has sections on political pressure and corporate action - and Count Us In also has some handy tips for how to do this.
- Transform your transport. Transport accounts for around a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions and across the world, many governments are implementing policies to decarbonize travel.
- Rein in your power use. If you can, switch to a zero-carbon or renewable energy provider. Install solar panels on your roof. Be more efficient: turn your heating down a degree or two, if possible.
Sep 9, 2021 · Book Review. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: Penguin Books. 2021. 257 pp. Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. M. Granger Morgan. First published: 09 September 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13760.
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Feb 4, 2021 · The United Kingdom’s determination to severely reduce greenhouse emissions is ambitious and particularly admirable, especially as the United States struggles to shy away from its dependence on fossil fuels. So how can we, as Americans, stand together to combat global climate change?
Extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, and floods are getting worse. To address these consequences of climate change, governments have instituted adaptation policies aimed at making...
Oct 29, 2020 · Published October 29, 2020. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to stopping or slowing global warming, and each individual, business, municipal, state, tribal, and federal entity must weigh their options in light of their own unique set of circumstances.
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical–andaccessible–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.
