Lindedin.com:
We need clean energy innovation, and lots of it
3 August 2015
Article by Bill Gates
Last month, during a trip to Europe, I mentioned that I plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology over the next five years. This will be a fairly big increase over the investments I am already making, and I am doing it because I believe that the next half-decade will bring many breakthroughs that will help solve climate change. As I argued in this 2010 TED talk, we need to be able to power all sectors of the economy with sources that do not emit any carbon dioxide.
This article was published online by Linkedin.com on August 3, 2015
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