Mint Visionaries 2019| Bill Gates says writing book on climate change, should be out next June

Bill Gates will be in conversation with Rishad Premji, chairman, Wipro Ltd., on Technology For Social Inclusion. Mint chose this theme because it resonates with the idea of new India.

Mint Visionaries is a series of conversations with people who are inspiring a new future. Mint kicks of the first conversation with Bill Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gates will be in conversation with Rishad Premji, chairman, Wipro Ltd., on Technology For Social Inclusion. Mint chose this theme because it resonates with the idea of new India.

Mint Visionaries seeks to showcase a whole host of issues like technology, empowerment, new economy, social change, urban solutions, alternative modes of development, mobility, migration, renewables—all of which are defining a new India.

WATCH | Full Video: Bill Gates and Rishad Premji in conversation I Mint Visionaries

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•Bill Gates says his favourite Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is health

•If there was one wish India should get rid of, that’s malnutrition because that reduces the potential of those kids, says Bill Gates

•Malnutrition reduces the potential of kids and also reduces their IQ levels: Bill Gates

•The next big transformation that will happen in India is health identifier. Every one will have a health card: Amitabh Kant

•I am writing a book next due on climate change. It explains what it takes to reduce emissions to zero: Bill Gates

•Technology can free up our time but can’t tell us what we do with that free time: Bill Gates

•In the past we all read the same newspaper. Today because of targeting... There may be a need to ban this micro targeting because it drives people apart. The society has to decide what these rules are: Bill Gates

•Climate change makes poor farmers suffer. Their crop will fail every three years as against 7-8 (earlier): Bill Gates

•As you heat the world up, mosquitoes can live in higher altitude. We should have enough tools to get rid of malaria. It is an example of something that makes things worse: Bill Gates

•You can’t leave out middle income countries because a lot of emission is going to come out of those countries: Bill Gates

•Energy is a lot harder than software. With energy, it’s the physical economy, it has to be reliable. We need to pursue nuclear energy. We also need geothermal, other forms of energy, says Bill Gates

•Due to climate change those who will suffer the most are the poor: Bill Gates

•Climate change is a problem young people are waking up to: Bill Gates

•I went to see the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar. He was talking about climate change and I didn’t expect that at all: Bill Gates

•You can’t leave out middle income countries because a lot of emission is going to come out of those countries, says Bill Gates

•Electric cars in the next 10-15 years will outcompete gasoline cars without subsidy. We have to accelerate innovation which won’t come if we don’t step in: Bill Gates

•The work on mitigation of emissions requires immense innovation: Bill Gates

•India cannot afford to be incremental, says Amitabh Kant

•What we are witnessing today is a massive transformation through digital technology: Amitabh Kant

•At Niti Aayog, we are tracking aspirational districts. We are now measuring change and putting data in public domain: Amitabh Kant

•Ayushman Bharat covering 500 million people which is more than the population of US, Europe and Mexico put together, says Amitabh Kant

•Ayushman Bharat is the biggest health insurance in the world: Amitabh Kant

•Our mobile data consumption is more than US and China put together: Amitabh Kant

•We have brought in a revolution and it is the revolution of technology: Amitabh Kant

•Good governance has become good administration, good politics: Niti Aayog CEO at Mint Visionaries

•India’s challenges are unique: Amitabh Kant

•NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to deliver keynote address

•Bill Gates will be in conversation with Rishad Premji, chairman, Wipro Ltd