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Analytical paper No 43, 2025 «Bill Gates’ Climate Innovations»
- 22 December 2025
IE RAS presents Analytical papers of IE RAS No 43, 2025 «Bill Gates’ Climate Innovations» (in Russian) by Sergey A. Roginko, Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Head of Center for Ecology and Development, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences.
The paper examines the ideas and proposals for restructuring global climate efforts outlined in Bill Gates' message to the delegates of UN Climate Change Conference (COP-30, Belem, Brazil, November 10-21, 2025). The article analyzes the approaches proposed in Gates' message for hedging climate risks and setting global climate goals and strategies for achieving them. The paper identifies new aspects, such as an attempt to change the nature of countries' commitments under the Paris Agreement through a sectoral approach that focuses on monitoring and reporting mechanisms for new low-carbon technologies. The author evaluates Gates' message as an attempt to synthesize traditional climate agenda principles with new US priorities in this area. Recommendations have been developed on the opportunities that are emerging, including responses to requests for alternative versions of the climate agenda.
