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Blueprint for a climate breakthrough

Fortune worked with Bill Gates and his colleagues at Breakthrough Energy and Gates Ventures to put together this extensive package of stories on the signal crisis of our age. That crisis is not the COVID-19 pandemic, as monumental as its trail of death and destruction has surely been—rather, it’s climate change.
Climate Package 2021-Editor's Note-Bill Gates
Environment
Why we asked Bill Gates to be Fortune’s guest editor today
By Clifton LeafFebruary 16, 2021
Bill Gates on why the ‘miracles’ of solar and wind energy won’t save us from climate change—and the breakthroughs that just might
Environment
Bill Gates on why the ‘miracles’ of solar and wind energy won’t save us from climate change—and the breakthroughs that just might
By Clifton LeafFebruary 16, 2021
Inside the ambitious venture Bill Gates built to beat climate change
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Inside the ambitious venture Bill Gates built to beat climate change
By Clifton LeafFebruary 16, 2021
Bill Gates: How ‘Green Premiums’ can help us solve climate change
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Bill Gates: How ‘Green Premiums’ can help us solve climate change
By Bill GatesFebruary 16, 2021
The electrification of the auto industry is speeding up—and shaking up the energy economy
Environment
The electrification of the auto industry is speeding up—and shaking up the energy economy
By Jeffrey BallFebruary 16, 2021
Climate Package 2021-Home Emissions
Environment
From concrete to steel, how construction makes up the ‘last mile’ of decarbonization
By Katherine DunnFebruary 16, 2021
Climate Package 2021-Biden-Corporations
Environment
Business leaders hope they can satisfy Biden’s big climate goals with their own promises—not regulation
By Nicole GoodkindFebruary 16, 2021
Climate Package 2021-VC Clean Tech Investors
Environment
These are the biggest trends in clean tech in 2021, investors say
By Anne SradersFebruary 16, 2021
Climate Package 2021-Ramya-Portrait
Tech
Why clean energy’s future may depend on molten salt, trains, and cranes
By Danielle AbrilFebruary 16, 2021
Climate Package 2021-Ancient Roman Concrete-Trajan's Market
Environment
This ancient Roman material could unlock the secret to building greener and longer-lasting buildings
By Bernhard WarnerFebruary 16, 2021
Meet the next generation of global climate activists
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Meet the next generation of global climate activists
By Emma HinchliffeFebruary 16, 2021
Why it matters that the U.S. rejoined the Paris climate agreement
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Why it matters that the U.S. rejoined the Paris climate agreement
By Vivienne WaltFebruary 16, 2021
8 photos show the ‘human footprint on the land’
Environment
8 photos show the ‘human footprint on the land’
By Mia DiehlFebruary 16, 2021
‘We just haven’t seen innovation’: Dartmouth’s engineering dean on why buildings are the frontier for tackling climate change
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‘We just haven’t seen innovation’: Dartmouth’s engineering dean on why buildings are the frontier for tackling climate change
By Katherine DunnFebruary 16, 2021
Climate Package 2021-Gates-Book
Environment
In an important new book, Bill Gates offers a real-world plan for avoiding a ‘climate disaster’
By Clifton LeafFebruary 13, 2021
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