Gates Mayun Launches Clean Energy Project

November 30 news, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (Bill Gates) and Alibaba co-founder Ma Yun and other dozens of business leaders on Monday announced the establishment of "Breakthrough Energy Coalition" (Breakthrough Energy Coalition), and launched the name The mission of Mission Innovation is dedicated to investing more resources in addressing climate change and clean energy issues over the next five years.

The agency has not yet explicitly announced the number of investment of specific members and future investment plans. They plan to invest in a series of technologies to create a "near-zero world of carbon. Gates said:" This scale is a multi-billion dollar clean Energy R&D projects will help companies bring clean energy innovations in the lab to market. "It is reported that the main task of the alliance is to help develop reliable, economical, non-carbon-emitting clean energy.

This time, Gates and Ma Yun took the opportunity to unveil the Paris Climate Summit, together with more than 20 private investors and a group of developed and developing country and regional governments, formally established the alliance. In addition to Gates and Ma, other business owners supporting the project include Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid. Reid Hoffman and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and others.

Among them, Zuckerberg published a message on Facebook: “Priscilla Chan (Zuck Berger’s wife) and I joined Gates and other entrepreneurs and launched the “Breakthrough Energy Alliance” to invest in new ones. Clean energy technology.Solving the problem of clean energy is an important part of creating a better world. Without safe energy and stable climate, we cannot make important progress on other challenges (such as education and connecting the world). But currently, we are able to The progress made in the continuous energy system is relatively slow. Moreover, the current system does not encourage this kind of innovation."

Zuckerberg also said: "The 'Breakthrough Energy Alliance' will focus on investing in ideas and technologies that have the potential to change the way we currently produce and consume energy." It is reported that breakthroughs in the core technology areas of the Energy Alliance include power generation and storage, transportation, The ultimate goal of industrial use, agriculture, and energy system efficiency is "nearly zero emissions."

Today, President Barack Obama and French President Hollande also attended the Paris Climate Summit and participated in the establishment of a breakthrough energy alliance.

According to reports, the full list of founding members of the project is as follows:

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & General Manager of Indian Trust Industry Co., Ltd.

John Arnold, Co-Chair of Laura and John Arnold Foundation, USA

Marc Benioff, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, USA

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos

Chairman Alwaleed, Chairman of the Alwaleed Philanthropies Charity Organization in Saudi Arabia

Richard Branson, founder of British Virgin Group

American Bridgewater Joint Fund Ray Dalio

Aliko Dangote, founder and CEO of Nigeria's Dangert Group

John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Investment Funds, USA

Bill Gates, President of the United States Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners, USA

Chris Hohn, founder of British Children's Investment Fund

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, USA

Chairman of China Alibaba Group Chairman Ma Yun

Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals, South Africa

Xavier Niel, founder of the French Iliad Group

Hasso Plattner, co-founder and Chairman of SAP, Germany

Julian Robertson, Founder and Chairman of U.S. Tiger Fund

Shen Nampeng, founding partner of China Sequoia Capital

Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons, co-founders of Prelude Ventures Fund, USA

Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Japan Softbank Group

George Soros, Chairman of American Soros Fund Management Company

Tom Steyer, president, businessman and philanthropist of NextGen Climate, USA

Honorary Chairman Ratan Tata of Tata Sons, India

Hewlett-Packard Company CEO Meg Whitman

SOHO China co-founder and CEO Ms. Zhang Xin and Chairman Mr. Pan Shiyi

Mark Zuckerberg, founder, chairman and CEO of American Facebook, and his wife Priscilla Chan

University of California, Chief Investment Officer Office