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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 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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Why Bill Gates Position on Divesting From Fossil Fuels Is Wrong
2015-10-23 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Beginning in March 2015, The Guardian, one of the worlds most respected and influential news organizations, launched an unprecedented media advocacy campaign--it was asking the richest and largest foundation on Earth, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to remove their investments in the fossil fuel industry. With the help of divestment activists, the Guardian collected the voices of a quarter of a million people across the globe who called on the Gates Foundation to join hundreds of other foundations,...
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Bill Gates calls fossil fuel divestment 'false solution'
2015-10-14 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bill Gates has branded fossil fuel divestment a false solution and accused environmentalists of making misleading claims about the price of solar power. In an interview with US magazine the Atlantic, the founder of Microsoft and the Gates foundation criticised the global movement that has seen pension funds, universities, churches and local governments commit to pulling $2.6tn out of coal, oil and gas companies. If you think divestment alone is a solution, I worry youre taking whatever...
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