No one thinks much about cement and steel, but making it accounts for 16% of all carbon dioxide emissions. Those pieces we've hardly started to work on. The things everybody knows about, that's getting almost all the money, not the hard parts, which is the industrial piece including the steel and cement. What- what's low-hanging fruit?īill Gates: Passenger cars, part of the electric generation with renewables. He supports President Biden's decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, but is asking the administration to massively increase the budget for climate and clean energy research to $35 billion a year.Īnderson Cooper: You've said that governments need to do the hard stuff, but not just go after the low-hanging fruit. has to lead the world getting to zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In a new book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster." Gates outlines all the solutions he believes we need. So, the deaths per year are way, ten times greater than- than what we've experienced in the pandemic. The Syrian War was a 20th of what climate migration will look like.
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