Software billionaire Bill Gates recently admitted that the climate change target as established by the Paris Climate Accord will likely not be met.
The 2015 Paris Climate Accord has a goal of limiting global warming below 2 degrees Celsius—and preferably below 1.5 degrees Celsius—compared to preindustrial levels. In a recent interview with Reuters, Gates said that the math shows the target is not within reach. No one wants to be “the first to say it,” he said. Taking into account “the overall scale of our industrial economy … we’re going to have to do mind-blowing work to stay below 2 degrees.”
Gates has invested more than $2 billion in climate technologies. He founded the Breakthrough Energy Group in 2015, which funds areas that advance low-carbon tech….