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Breakthrough Energy is the umbrella name of several organizations, founded by Bill Gates in 2015, that aim to accelerate innovation in sustainable energy and in other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Mission Innovation was announced at COP21 on 30 November 2015 by President Obama of the United States, [1] on behalf of the founding Governments. At the same time Bill Gates launched Breakthrough Energy. [2] Also on stage for the launch was President Hollande of France and Prime Minister Modi of India. [3]
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates.In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it.
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates looked at the big picture and the small picture as he was growing his software company in the early years. ... Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000, gave up his day-to ...
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
Gates personally intervened to help convince Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to pass the bill. To those who criticized the bill for not doing enough to address climate change because it still allowed ...
Bill Gates has suggested that Donald Trump could spur innovation in the U.S. much like John F. Kennedy did in the 1960s.
A Melitta drip coffeemaker displaying a weather forecast on an electronic visual display powered by SPOT. The Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) is a discontinued initiative by Microsoft to create intelligent and personal home appliances, consumer electronics, and other objects through new hardware capabilities and software features.