We need to innovate to make the “green way” far less expensive than it is today, BillGates told DianaOlick.
on Tuesday. In the essay, the Microsoft co-founder gives a brief retrospective of how he views the world's response to global warming in the 15 years since he started learning about climate change.
To slow global warming and the extreme weather events that come with a hotter planet, all countries need to stop releasing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane gas, that trap heat in the earth's atmosphere, he said. Manufacturing bears the largest responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 30 percent of total emissions. Producing electricity accounts for 26 percent of global emissions, agriculture is responsible for 21 percent, transportation for 16 percent, and buildings for 7 percent, according to Rhodium Group data from 2019.
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