Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
It’s a foregone conclusion that the world will not meet the goals for limiting emissions and global warming laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Many people want to blame politicians and corporations for this failure, but there’s an even more fundamental reason: We don’t have all the technological tools we need to do it, and many of the ones we do have are too expensive.
For all the progress the world has made on renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, and electricity storage, we need a lot more innovation on every front—from discovery to deployment—before we can hope to reach our ultimate goal of net-zero emissions.
But Bill Gates doesn’t think this is any reason to be pessimistic. In an opinion piece he wrote for MIT Technology Review, he argues that our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity.
Read more about the Green Premium and how it reveals where we can invest in climate progress for maximum impact: technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1124265/bill-gates-ingenuity-climate-change-tech-investment/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
It’s a foregone conclusion that the world will not meet the goals for limiting emissions and global warming laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Many people want to blame politicians and corporations for this failure, but there’s an even more fundamental reason: We don’t have all the technological tools we need to do it, and many of the ones we do have are too expensive.
For all the progress the world has made on renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, and electricity storage, we need a lot more innovation on every front—from discovery to deployment—before we can hope to reach our ultimate goal of net-zero emissions.
But Bill Gates doesn’t think this is any reason to be pessimistic. In an opinion piece he wrote for MIT Technology Review, he argues that our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity.
Read more about the Green Premium and how it reveals where we can invest in climate progress for maximum impact: technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1124265/bill-gates-ingenuity-climate-change-tech-investment/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
