How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Random House Large Print)

For one thing, city planners need the latest data on climate risks and projections from computer models that predict the impact of climate change. (Today, many city leaders in the developing

What Microsoft needed—and what we need now to deal with climate change—is an approach that allows many different disciplines to put us on the right path.

To get to zero by 2050, we’ll need to have the policy and market structures in place by 2030. And third, any country that’s in a position to fund research needs to make sure it’s on track to make…

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Instead, we’re better off pursuing two strategies at the same time: First, going all out to deliver zero-carbon electricity cheaply and reliably; and second, electrifying as widely as possible—everything from vehicles to industrial processes and heat pumps, even in places that currently rely on fossil fuels for their electricity.