Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CEF Lead Executives
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PAM MASSEY
Deputy Director Global Sustainability
Pam joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999. Her current role is Deputy Director Global Sustainability and she leads the strategy and execution of the foundation’s sustainability program. Before this role, 30+ years of
travel industry experience included supplier and buyer roles in both leisure and business travel. Recognition includes Two-time BTN Corporate Travel Best Practitioner (2015/19) and Global Business Travel Assn 2016 Master’s Program Honoree. Degrees include BS Business Economics and BS Speech Communication from Willamette University, Certified Corporate Travel Executive from Cornell University and Business Travel Professional Certificate from Global Sustainability Tourism Council. Pam lives in Seattle near her two adult children.
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DEREK BOTHEREAU
Senior Program Manager, Global Sustainability
Derek co-leads strategies and execution of the Foundation’s sustainability program. Previously, Derek was sustainability and global partnerships senior manager at Starbucks on the Global Coffee team, where he led Coffee decarbonization and Water Reduction efforts as well as a team leading impact measurement and NGO partnerships. He helped launch Starbucks 2030 goals, contributed to the development of Starbucks digital coffee traceability tool, and oversaw key Starbucks partnerships. Derek also spent over a decade in consulting: As Director at SustainAbiilty Inc. (now ERM) on sustainable development with Fortune 500 companies and previously with Monitor Group/ Deloitte, advising global clients and leading analysis for the public and private sectors. He served as an Advisory Board member of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge coalition and is trained as Climate Reality Leadership Corps member. Derek holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley. Derek lives in Seattle, WA with his family and is a fan these days of anything that gets his two young kids into the outdoors.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
Highlights
- Utility Consumption:
- 25% reduction in utility emissions per year at Seattle campus from 2012 emission volumes (a net reduction of over 950 MTCO2e per year)
- Business Travel: 28% reduction per employee in MTCO2e per year from 2012 emission volumes.
- Commuting: 61% of all commutes to the Seattle campus were taken via alternative commute modes, including walking, biking, carpooling, vanpooling, and public transportation.
- Waste: 90% waste diversion
from landfill rate achieved in 2018 and maintained in 2019.
Recent News
2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to invest $1.4 billion to help smallholder farmers address the immediate and long-term impacts of climate change. This will fund immediate action and long-term initiatives over four years to help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia build resilience and food security. The foundation also announced investments in the Africa Adaptation Initiative to build a pipeline of “climate-smart” agriculture projects across 23 countries in Africa, in the development of new digital technologies to help smallholder farmers anticipate and respond to climate threats, and in innovations for improving livestock health and productivity while reducing their climate footprint. (Nov 2022)
2021
The
U.K. and
Canada are
co-leading the new Adaptation Research Alliance, a group of 90 national governments, aid organizations, and universities across 30 economies. The alliance will
fund and coordinate research for effective climate-adaptation solutions,particularly for communities most vulnerable to climate change. The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
a CEF member, is a founding alliance member. (Nov 2021)
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The U.S. and the UAE launched the
Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate
(AIM for Climate),
a joint initiative to mobilize public-private investment and other support for “climate-smart” agriculture and food-systems innovation through 2025. The U.S. plans to mobilize $1 billion of investment by 2025. 31 countries including Brazil and 48 NGO and corporate partners have joined the initiative, including CEF members
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BASF, and
PepsiCo. (Nov 2021)
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2021 Goalkeepers Report (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) —
Illustrates how the pandemic has impacted progress toward the UN SDGs. While
90% of advanced economies are expected to
regain pre-pandemic per capita income levels by 2022, only a third of low- and middle-income economies are expected to do so. (Sept 2021)
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Will give $2.1 billion over the next 5 years to advance women's economic empowerment
($650 million) and leadership ($100 million over 5 years, $230 million over 10 years), and better women and girls' health and family planning ($1.4 billion). (July 2021)
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Bill Gates published a new book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. (February, 2021)
2020
Bill Gates published the article, “COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.” (August 2021)
In the 2020 GatesNotes Annual Letter, Bill and Melinda Gates share their views on the climate crisis, how it impacts the work of the foundation, and their belief that a climate catastrophe can be avoided. (February 2020)