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

> We should spend the next decade focusing on the technologies, [governmental] policies and market structures that will put us on the path to eliminating greenhouse gases by 2050. It's hard to think of a better response to a miserable [year of COVID-19 disruptions during] 2020 than spending the next ten years dedicating ourselves to this ambitious goal.

- 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: 230
- 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/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster/we-should-spend

## 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)