How to avoid a climate disaster [electronic resource] : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Bill Gates.
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- ISBN: 9780385546140
- ISBN: 0385546149
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2021.
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Source of Description Note: | Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed July 07, 2020). |
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Subject: | Technology. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General. Technology. |
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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.
Bill Gates is cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy. Bill founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen and led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software and services. In 2008, Bill transitioned to focus full-time on his foundationâs work to expand opportunity to the worldâs most disadvantaged people. As cochair, he leads the foundationâs development of strategies and sets the overall direction of the organization. Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he pursues his work on innovation in clean energy, Alzheimerâs disease and other healthcare issues, interdisciplinary education, and technology. At Breakthrough Energy, heâs putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. Bill uses his experience partnering with global leaders across sectors to help drive the policy, market, and technological changes required for a clean-energy transition. In 2010, Bill, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the wealthiest families and individuals to publicly commit more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations during their lifetime or in their will.