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Bill Gates says India has an important role to play in tackling climate crisis

by Segun Ogunlade March 3, 2023
written by Segun Ogunlade March 3, 2023
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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has called on India to play a central role in the fight against climate change whilst he also commended the South Asian nation’s leadership in renewable energy.

Mr Gates expressed his concern over the climate crisis for the umpteenth time and called for scientific innovations to address the problem when he was speaking at the fifth Ramnath Goenka lecture organised by The Indian Express newspaper.

The American billionaire has invested more than $2bn toward climate technologies, but he said that finding solutions that are both cheap and reliable to address the climate crisis is a major challenge.

“The challenge is pretty incredible when it comes to creating solutions that are not just cheap but also reliable,” Mr Gates was quoted as saying.

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“I find these challenges exciting and I always see a chance for innovation if we can get young people and explain that challenge to them and get capital to them. Then I think innovation can help continue with the human progress,” he said.

He noted that India as a country has half of its population below the age of 25, and he called on them to be involved in finding solutions as they can can play a key role in fighting the climate crisis.

“We need innovation from the whole world, but a lot specifically from India,” he said.

“You have got 700 million young people, you have educational institutions, it just gets stronger. So we need innovation from the whole world, but a lot specifically from India.

“We are looking to India for a significant part of that so that we can overcome the world’s great challenges.

“India is leading the way in showing all sorts of innovative applications,” he said.

India is the world’s third largest polluter but has very little per capita emissions compared to developed nations, albeit it has shown rapid progress on the front of renewable energy and aims to reach net zero by 2070.

The co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also highlighted that “most of the emission” contributing to heating comes from the rich countries and yet “most of the damage” will be in the middle-income and lower-income countries that are near the equator.

“So it’s an incredible injustice,” he said, adding: “Even though it kind of creeps up on you, we need to act now in a very big way.”

Story was adapted from the Independent.

 

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