Gates has a few years leading his own campaign against energies harming the planet. He has dedicated a significant amount of his considerable resources into promoting and encouraging society changes. “In 2060, climate change could be as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100, five times deadlier,” he said.

The Microsoft founder made clear that in order to reduce carbon footprint on the atmosphere it is not enough to go out less, use combustion cars fewer times, use planes, or any other movement involving fossil fuels, because for him “it is useful but not enough”.

And so began an Impressive Legacy

For Bill Gates to reach this point, he had to travel many roads where he acquired empirical and scientific knowledge, but it all began when he was born on October 28, 1955 (65 years old). He showed great abilities to learn fast and develop things, to the point that, while still a Harvard University student, he created Microsoft from scratch, along with Paul Allen.

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One of the most outstanding projects of the American was developing (also with Paul Allen) the famous Windows operating system, used to date by hundreds of companies, universities and individuals worldwide, which significantly contributed to accumulate a fortune as net worth (96.6 billion dollars registered in 2019 according to Forbes).

His specialties are philanthropy, computer science and, of course, business. However, having so much wealth, being a well-known and respected face in the media, is part of Gates’ key reason for jumping into leading the fight for a “green” path, driving sustainability into the future rather than projecting it to be “the way of tomorrow”, it’ s necessary.

“Innovating on how we generate and store clean electricity, cultivate food, make things, get around, and heat and cool our buildings,” is part of Gates’ thinking for constructing tomorrow’s society, so it can function in a sustainable and common way.

Bill Gates’ Green Manifesto

This February, Financial Times unveiled Bill Gates’ Green Manifesto, which outlines multiple ways to develop a sustainable, green and stable structure to reduce the damaging impact of “current practices of doing business in different sectors”.

“Preventing a climate disaster requires a different way of doing business, the courage to take risks that many CEOs are not used to, and investors are not usually willing to reward”.

Greenhouse emissions have to stop by 2050, according to Gates. The businessman, however, is fully aware of all the investment involved to change the current course of the world’ s economy, but, it is necessary in order to have a planet suitable to live on.

Written by | Ronald Ortega

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Hybrid vehicles capable of traveling “significant distances without emitting carbon dioxide” will continue on sale until 2035, the Government advanced in a statement, which plans to invest 1,300 million pound sterling (1,450 million euros) in accelerating the expansion of recharging points electrical.

For a greener world

The move is part of a strategic environmental plan, and Johnson wants to “create and support” 250,000 jobs in the UK, which will host the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021.

Over the next decade, the British Executive plans to mobilize 12,000 million pounds (13,390 million euros) in public investments towards sectors that contribute to the goal of reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide by 2050.

Dialogue with manufacturers

UK Government assures that it has maintained “extensive consultations” with vehicle manufacturers and sellers before announcing the future veto on diesel and gasoline engines.

The United Kingdom “already manufactures a significant proportion of electric vehicles in Europe,” says Johnson. Those cars will also help the industry to boost the production development of batteries with an investment of 500 million pounds (560 million euros) in four years.

Johnson also plans to grant 582 million pounds (650 million euros) in subsidies to lower the price and stimulate the sale of zero or “ultra-low” emissions vehicles.

The environmental organization Greenpeace UK declared that the ban announced by the United Kingdom marks a “historic turning point in climate action”.

“The move to electric vehicles is not a panacea, vetoing new polluting gasoline and diesel (cars) by 2030 can put the government on track towards meeting its climate commitments,” said Rebecca Newsom, head of the UK Policy department at Greenpeace.

Johnson’s ten-point environmental roadmap also plans to quadruple the amount of offshore wind power the UK produces over the next decade, to 40 gigawatts (GV).

The use of hydrogen as a fuel for industry, transport and the generation of heat in homes will be promoted with up to 500 million pounds (560 million euros) and 525 million pounds (585 million euros) and will be dedicated to development of plants and nuclear technology.

The UK also aspires to become a “world leader in technologies for capturing and storing harmful emissions”, and aims to have recovered 10 megatons (MT) of carbon dioxide by 2030.

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Mercedes-Benz has won the last seven Formula 1 (F1) championships, but its parent company, Daimler, is reducing its participation in the team. While F1 remains valuable from an image perspective, Daimler can now get more out of its marketing investment, while the racing unit also pushes to increase its own revenue outside of international tracks.

Sales boost

The team plans to sell more engineering services to external clients. By leveraging its expertise in optimizing aerodynamics and engine efficiency, as well as processing complex data, the Brackley, England-based company aims to triple revenue in its applied science unit to 100 million pounds sterling (135 million dollars) by 2025.

The entire organization is boosting its profitability in two years, CEO Toto Wolff said in a report by the Bloomberg news agency.

“In Formula One it’s all about speed of delivery, and our speed of delivery of technical solutions that are both competitive as well as safe is something that can be applied across a wide range of areas,” Wolff said in an interview.

Mercedes is one of the most successful racing organizations in the world. Its star driver, Lewis Hamilton, has won six F1 championships since 2014. The domain faces a new test when cost caps go into effect to revive competition and make the grand prix more sustainable.

Honda Motor Co. said in October that they will leave F1 at the end of the 2021 season, while Volkswagen AG’s BMW AG and Volkswagen AG’s Audi have announced that they will be leaving Formula E electric motor racing. The VW brand is ending all sports activities and reassigning employees to work on building the largest battery-powered fleet in the industry.

Powerful supercar

In addition to outside sales efforts, the Mercedes F1 team has deepened collaboration with the performance car division to reinforce fully or partially electric sports car offerings.

The three years that have passed since Mercedes showed off the last car, a two-seater that boasts more than 1,000 horsepower, suggests that there are reasons no other automaker has tried to plug an F1 powertrain into a vehicle for public streets.

Porsche AG and Toyota Motor Corp. have used racing to test technology for road vehicles, but the transfer of knowledge was mainly focused on areas such as turbocharged engines or electric power recovery in hybrid systems.

Adapting sophisticated F1 components like the exhaust gas turbocharger and adjusting the noise vibration to levels that don’t pierce the eardrums is costly. Still, it’s worth the effort, said Jochen Hermann, AMG’s chief technology officer.

In the electric vehicle sector, traditional manufacturers have taken it easier than startups like Tesla. There are undoubtedly interesting bets and proof of this is Volkswagen with its ID.3 and ID.4 for example. However, other classics such as Mercedes-Benz have been a bit behind. They plan to fix that by launching a total of six new electric cars in the short term.

Daimler, the parent company behind Mercedes-Benz, has announced what the roadmap is for the brand’s electric vehicles. To date we have seen more concepts (spectacular, it must be said) than final and mass-manufactured products. But this looks set to change. Thanks to a new scalable architecture, the manufacturer hopes to be able to adapt production to the needs of each moment.

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