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/PRNewswire/ -- Beginning today, Bill Gates will give every college and university student around the world a free digital copy of his best-selling book, How...

A new partnership for our 2050 climate goals 19 July 2021 ©EIB The private and public sectors are investing millions of euros more each year in green technologies, but we are still moving too slowly to find and deploy new products. And green technologies’ prices are still too high. President Werner Hoyer and Bill Gates met in Brussels on Monday to discuss ways to speed up technology growth, lower the costs and help sustainable projects reach a commercial stage in less time. The get-together...

Nteranya Sanginga, Director General, IITA On the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 June 2021, drawing from IPS’s bank of features and opinion editorials published this year, we are re-publishing one article a day, for the next two weeks. The original article was published on February 17 2021 A woman farmer in Mozambique with DT maize harvest. Credit: CIMMYT IBADAN and MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) – 17 February – African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate chang...

Nteranya Sanginga, Director General, IITA On the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 June 2021, drawing from IPS’s bank of features and opinion editorials published this year, we are re-publishing one article a day, for the next two weeks. The original article was published on February 17 2021 A woman farmer in Mozambique with DT maize harvest. Credit: CIMMYT IBADAN and MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) – 17 February – African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate chang...

In the wake of the announcement by Bill and Melinda Gates’s divorce, rumours have been seeping out about Bill’s private life which do him no credit. However, it’s not reports of infidelity which bother me – there, but for the grace of God go I — it’s this item from a glowing description of his home in Medina, a suburb of Seattle overlooking Lake Washington. “The lakefront shore contains sand that’s delivered in large quantities by a barge from St. Lucia each year.” Sand from S...

Bill Gates shares 3 steps to a clean energy economy in message to Leaders Summit on Climate April 23, 2021 at 9:57 am Bill Gates during his message to the Leaders Summit on Climate on Friday. (YouTube screenshot) Bill Gates joined day two of President Joe Biden’s virtual “Leaders Summit on Climate” on Friday with a message to world leaders about the necessary steps they must take to avoid a climate disaster. The Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sa...

Continued inequity in COVID-19 vaccination means virus mutations occur and newer variants emerge that may be resistant to currently available vaccines. Credit: United Nations. ABUJA, Apr 2 2021 (IPS) - As richer western nations continue hoarding COVID-19 vaccines to the detriment of poorer nations, there is some light on the horizon. On April 15, 2021, the U.S. will join the Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) and co-host the launch of the Investment Opportunity for COVAX Advance Market Commitment...

Nteranya Sanginga, Director General, IITA A woman farmer in Mozambique with DT maize harvest. Credit: CIMMYT IBADAN and MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) - 17 February – African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate change: 2020 was the second hottest year on record, while prolonged droughts and explosive floods are directly threatening the livelihoods of millions. By the 2030s, lack of rainfall and rising temperatures could render 40 percent of Africa’s maize-growing are...

Bill Gates addressing GreenBiz 21 When you’re one of the world’s richest people, it’s hard not to make a global impact. Fortunately for the climate cause, Bill Gates for the last half-decade has invested considerably toward innovations to push the planet toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. "Getting to zero is one of the most difficult challenges people have ever taken on," he said in a keynote address broadcast at the GreenBiz 21 virtual event Tuesday. "We’re going to have...

Last week Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and world's third richest person, got his first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. He posted a picture of himself having the jab on his Twitter account with the caption: "One of the benefits of being 65 is that I’m eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine. I got my first dose this week, and I...