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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 was a continuation of a series of meetings between the president and Mr. Gates over the past severa...
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 change: 2020 was the second hottest year on record, while prolonged droughts and explosive floods are dir...
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 change: 2020 was the second hottest year on record, while prolonged droughts and explosive floods are dir...
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 St Lucia? All the way from the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal? Each year?