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Bill Gates plots a surprise attack on the energy sector

2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Bill Gates grows most animated when the talk turns to the "cool" new energy technologies that have yet to leave the lab. Gates was a rare civilian sharing the limelight alongside presidents and prime ministers at the opening session of Paris climate talks on Monday. Offstage, in a barren conference room, he excitedly described the possibility of generating energy through the long-speculated process of artificial photosynthesis, using the energy of sunshine to produce liquid hydrocarbons that...

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Bill McKibben: What Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth

2015-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: Starting Monday, diplomats and scientists, activists and heads of state at the 2015 U.N. climate change conference in Paris will scramble to reach the first truly global agreement on the greatest problem the planet has ever faced. It will make for compelling headlines, but it's not the real story. Because that already happened. Think back to Copenhagen in 2009 and the last of the great U.N. climate gatherings. There too the world watched expectantly, only to see negotiations break down. No firm...

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Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy

2015-11-28 03:05:01| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Bill Gates will announce the creation of a multibillion-dollar clean energy fund on Monday at the opening of a Paris summit meeting intended to forge a global accord to cut planet-warming emissions, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The fund, which one of the people described as the largest such effort in history, is meant to pay for research and development of new clean-energy technologies. It will include contributions from other billionaires and philanthropies, as well as a commitment...

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As World Leaders Launch Paris Climate Talks Monday, Bill Gates Will Launch a Supporting Science Push

2015-11-27 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: As world leaders meet in Paris on Monday to kick off two weeks of talks aimed at shaping safe targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, Bill Gates will be in town, as well, to announce a modest first step toward bolstering the basic energy research and technology development that will be needed to meet those targets affordably. The gap between the modest, but creditable, emissions pledges so far and any reasonable trajectory toward avoiding dangerous climate change is huge, as I wrote recently....

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Bill Ackman: Rail Consolidation Is Coming

2015-11-24 12:08:57| Railroads - Topix.net

The Bill Ackman activist target, Canadian Pacific , sent a letter to Norfolk Southern last week. In it, CP says it is willing to offer a sizable premium to buy NSC.

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