Collaborative fact-checking of : Energy Investments Dialogue | Bill Gates | Global Energy Forum

[farmers in Africa] They are going from having one of twelve years where their harver stails they will to get to a point where it is one of four years. That leads to sever malnutrition and starvation.

These financial guys got on stage: "oh we are going to rate companies in term of their CO2 output."

The madness of this so called "finance is the solution", I just don't get that. There is no substitute for how the industrial economy runs today.

Will India pay a premium prize to have materials to build buildings, to get rid of swamps,[...] Basically the answer is no [...] when their green gas emission per person is only a twentieth of what US has already emitted.

who should go first and get emission per person down,[...] of course that should be us [te USA].

The "climate is easy to solve" group is our biggest problem.

[breakthroughs we need in term of technology] In the electricity sector either need something like nuclear fission or fusion that runs 24 hours with high duty cycle.

[breakthrough technology for electricity sector] ... or if you are going to rely on intermittent sources then you need some monster miracle that's more than an order of magnitude away from anything this grid storage.

... and the 24% of the emissions are agriculture and meat related emissions.

Cows if they were a country they would be in the top 5 emitters of the world. That's just cows.

The goal is zero, Actually the way they do the models now because they're trying to make it look like 1.5 degrees isn't the biggest joke ever, they show these gigantic negative emissions.

I am the biggest funder of various carbon capture things : liquid, solid, you name it...

[carbon capture business] but the likelihood of that being economic that is more than 2 orders of magnitude non economic right at the moment

[CO2 capture industry] it would have to be ten times the size the oil industry. That is the amount of stuff that you would have to stick underground.

[about trees absorbing carbon] it is one time gain unless you do some put it down below, below the ground eventually it will rotten and recycle back in.

Agriculture productivity in Africa is a quarter of what it is in the US and Europe.

If you care about climate adaptation, the thing you most invest in by far the top of the list would be more productive seeds, so if you are only having 2 or 3 good years you either maintain buffer stock or you sell it.

[new nuclear power in the digital age] we can massively simplify, make sure there"s no pressure anywhere.

Should you really be funding the intermittent stuff with all the money and putting no money in the stuff that works all the time {nuclear energy]

[about world wide carbon price] I am hopeful that you can get most of the rich countries involved in that [...] it doesn't substitute for the damage, it is simply a price signal that incent some risk taking behavior

The world not had a year where we make less CO2

[mandates to use clean energy in Africa] Africa should not be constrained. They should do whatever it takes to reduce malnutrition and starvation.