What the Blog? is an Essentials video series discussing what’s next for sustainability, and how sustainable energy and green cities could help fight climate change. Editors Isabella Moulton and Martin Jacobsz bring you a snappy summary of articles directly from our expertly curated Sustainability Essentials Newsletters.

Our first article covering the latest sustainability news outlines that Bill Gates has a plan for the future of food, and it looks very different from our current reality. Gates along with his agribusiness partners believe wealthy countries should shift completely to synthetic beef, creating more sustainable food that has massive benefits for climate change. Unsurprisingly, he has the intellectual property rights to save our planet, and make himself very rich in the process. How rich? The Gates-funded Impossible Foods has over two dozen patents and over 100 patents pending to artificially replicate all kinds of foods from meats to cheeses, and the market for genetically engineered products is set to reach $2-4 trillion within the next 20 years. So which green is Gates motivated by? I guess we’re about to find out. Read the article here.

The second article on the latest sustainability news, explains how new research has discovered that over a third of heat-related deaths in warm seasons can be linked back to climate change. Deaths due to heat stress caused by rising global temperatures have shifted from projections to actual figures. The research project was no small feat either; it studied almost 30 million deaths taking place between 1991 and 2015, across 732 locations in 43 countries. This data should reinforce what we already knew-- climate change is a serious problem, with far-reaching effects. So what’s next in climate change news? Read the blog here.