Bill Gates: 'Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?'

After putting $100m into Covid research, the billionaire is taking on the climate crisis. And first he has some bones to pick with his fellow campaigners... Read an exclusive extract from Gates' new book Bill Gates appears via video conference - Microsoft Teams, not Zoom, obviously - from his office in Seattle, a large space with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Lake Washington. It's a gloomy day outside and Gates is, somewhat eccentrically, positioned a long way from the camera, behind a la...