Millionaire pact: Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos team up for a major project

The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, will partner with the former CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, to invest in green technology companies and “fight against climate change”.

Gates is sure that in the near future climate change “could eclipse the current pandemic in terms of deaths and global impact”.

Although the figure that the two tycoons will invest in green technology has not been disclosed, it is believed that they could be several million dollars.

“We want businesses and governments to get involved, but having a solid foundation of philanthropic capital to start with would be great,” the Microsoft founder said in an interview with Bloomberg.

For Gates, “deaths will only increase because there are more heat waves, wildfires and, most importantly, the ability to go outside and farm anywhere near the equator is lost. “

“Even though the world is trying to stop the novel coronavirus and start recovering from it, we also need to act now to avert a climate catastrophe by building and deploying innovations that allow us to eliminate our greenhouse gas emissions, ”he said.

Gates has long maintained that it is necessary electrify all means of transport, minus trucks and planes. “Electricity works when it is necessary to travel short distances, but we need a different solution for long-haul heavy vehicles,” he said.

“By 2060, climate change could be as deadly as Covid-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly. I would have liked to have done more to draw attention to the danger of climate change, ”he lamented.

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