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We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic

Gates returned to the TED stage seven years after his ‘next outbreak’ warning to propose a permanent Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team of about 3,000 people, costing $1 billion a year, previewing his May 2022 book.

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2020
Singapore FinTech Festival address
Gates discussed digital payments for the poor, the foundation’s Mojaloop work and vaccine distribution timelines in a virtual session for Singapore’s fintech conference.
2021
Bill Gates: How the world can avoid a climate disaster
Cooper’s 60 Minutes segment launched Gates’s climate book two days before publication: Gates argued climate is harder than the pandemic and solvable only with breakthroughs in steel, cement and next-generation nuclear power (TerraPower), and conceded ‘I probably have one of the highest greenhouse gas footprints of anyone on the planet’, which he offsets.
2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
A remote late-night stop on the ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ tour, with Colbert asking about the microchip conspiracy theories as well as the book.
2021
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2021)
Gates and Noah discussed the climate book, green premiums and whether rich countries will pay to help poorer ones adapt.
2021
AC360: The Bill Gates Interview
A prime-time CNN special in which Cooper talks to Gates about the state of the coronavirus a year in, the vaccine rollout under the new Biden administration, and the climate book published that week.
2021
The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster
Gates walks Giussani through the book’s framework: 51 billion tons a year to zero, the five sources of emissions, green premiums, and why he backs nuclear, direct air capture and green hydrogen; he also answers critics who say technology optimism delays action.
2022
We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic
Gates returned to the TED stage seven years after his ‘next outbreak’ warning to propose a permanent Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team of about 3,000 people, costing $1 billion a year, previewing his May 2022 book.
2022
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (2022)
Book-tour appearance on the GERM-team proposal and on living with pandemic conspiracy theories.
2023
Amol Rajan Interviews Bill Gates
Rajan’s BBC interview, partly filmed on a foundation trip to Kenya, pressed Gates on his private-jet travel (‘I’m not part of the problem’), on Jeffrey Epstein (he said he regretted the dinners), and on vaccine conspiracy theories, alongside the foundation’s health work.
2023
Northern Arizona University commencement address
Gates’s first solo commencement address since Harvard in 2007, built around five lessons he wished he had known at graduation, including ‘your life isn’t a one-act play’ and a plug for AI as the coming revolution. He received an honorary doctorate.
2024
How Bill Gates spends $9 billion a year
Anderson’s fourth long interview with Gates, on how the foundation allocates its roughly $9 billion annual budget, the AI tools it is funding for health and education, and what Gates has learned from 25 years of giving.
2025
Source Code interview on Today
The network-television opener for the memoir tour, in which Gates discussed his childhood, the autism passage in the book, his divorce (‘the mistake I most regret’) and described Paula Hurd as a ‘serious girlfriend’.
2025
Source Code: My Beginnings (Book TV program)
An 80-minute Book TV program titled ‘Bill Gates: Source Code – My Beginnings’, recorded at a memoir-tour event in February 2025 and aired by C-SPAN2 on February 17, 2025; it is the longest single recording from the Source Code tour.