Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares "during our lives" - holdings currently worth $45 billion - to charity. The pledge was made in an open letter to their newborn daughter, Max.
As world leaders converge on Paris for historic climate talks, a coalition of governments and private investors is preparing to launch major research initiatives that seek to pour billions of dollars into an urgent search for solutions to global warming.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have launched a new global initiative aimed at spurring private sector investment in clean energy. Zuckerberg announced the launch of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition on his Facebook page Sunday evening, ahead of this week's COP21 climate change conference in Paris, where world leaders aim to reach an agreement on limiting the rise in global temperatures.
The United States and 19 other countries on Monday promised to work toward doubling their spending over five years to support "clean energy" research. And at the same time, 28 private investors, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos, pledged their own money to help build private businesses based on that public research.
Scientists in China have unveiled plans for the world's largest animal cloning factory with the man behind the venture labelling it an "extremely important" step towards saving critically endangered species from extinction. But the factory's announcement, due to begin operations in the second half of 2016, was greeted with concern by Chinese social media users sceptical of previous food safety records.
PARIS: 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.
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Clean technology includes recycling, renewable energy ( wind power, solar power, biomass, hydropower, biofuels, etc.), information technology, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry, lighting, Greywater, and many other appliances that are now more energy efficient. It is a means to create electricity and fuels, with a smaller environmental footprint and minimise pollution.
Mission Innovation aims to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. Accelerating widespread clean energy innovation is: An indispensable part of an effective, long term global response to our shared climate challenge; Necessary to provide affordable and reliable energy for everyone and to promote economic growth; and Critical for energy security.
The R20 - Regions of Climate Action ( R20) is a nonprofit environmental organization founded in November 2010, by former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the support of the United Nations. The R20 is a coalition of sub-national governments, private companies, international organizations, NGOs and academic and financial institutions.