by Bill Gates · Penguin Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780241448304
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«How to Avoid a Climate Disaster» is Bill Gates's essay on climate change, published by Penguin Ltd in hardback (272 pages, in English).
Bill Gates analyses how to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and avoid a climate catastrophe. Drawing on his investing experience and a decade of research, he reviews the most polluting sectors, the technologies that already exist, and the advances still needed. He also proposes concrete measures for governments, businesses, and citizens, and argues that the goal is achievable if we act quickly.
The subtitle is «The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need». It was published on 16 February 2021 and was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in non-fiction.
For readers interested in climate change, sustainability, technology, and environmental policy, or in Bill Gates's ideas.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.
