‘No chance’ of global heating below 1.5C but nuclear tech ‘promising’ in climate crisis, Bill Gates says

Bill Gates, who met PM Anthony Albanese over the weekend, told the Lowy Institute Australia was ‘very blessed’ with renewable energy resources. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

The world will be lucky to avoid 2.5C of heating, but emerging technology may help avert even worse, Bill Gates has told a Sydney audience.

The US billionaire and philanthropist told the Lowy Institute on Monday that while malaria still killed more children – 400,000 a year – the climate crisis was “worth investing in massively because it will get worse and worse over time”.