(XINHUA): Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has appreciated China’s efforts in fight against climate change and its contributions to carbon reduction, saying that the world benefits from the country’s efforts to make green energy more affordable.
Talking to an internal news channel, Bill Gates said, “It’s great that President Xi is making climate a priority and wants to work with other countries on this.”
“Without the contributions of China, many of the key ingredients in fighting climate change like the batteries and solar power wouldn’t be so affordable,” the Microsoft owner added.
He further said that China was also doing a lot to build up its electricity grid to use more renewable energy. “I hope that innovators in China can bring down the cost of green energy enough, so that China can even increase its commitment to use renewable energy in the Belt and Road Initiative,” he added.
Citing many sources of emissions like steel and cement factories, Gates said that the world cannot skip over any of these to reach zero emissions. “To solve these problems, innovation is a key,” Gates said, noting that Chinese companies are increasing their R&D budgets.
“Climate change and innovation are areas that China and the United States could achieve big win-win results,” he said, adding that both countries have amazing smart people in the younger generation that would be proud to be part of this.
China aims to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, said Chinese President Xi Jinping in September 2020 at the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video.
