# Quote — Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

> There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year. . . . Zero is what we need to aim for [by the year 2050 to] stop the warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change . . . .

- Author: [Bill Gates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates.md)
- Book: [How to Avoid a Climate Disaster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster.md)
- Page: 3
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#How_to_Avoid_a_Climate_Disaster_(2021)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster/there-are-two

## More from this book

> When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster/when-it-comes.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> To get [the breakthroughs on the "Technologies needed" list] ready soon enough to make a difference, governments need to . . . [q]uintuple clean energy and climate-related R&D over the next decade. . . .

p. 200 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster/to-get-the.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md)

> It helps to set ambitious goals and commit to meeting them, the way countries around the world did with the 2015 Paris Agreement. It’s easy to mock international agreements, but they’re part of how progress happens: If you like having an ozone layer, you can thank an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol.

p. 215 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster/it-helps-to-set.md)

Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md)