Bill Gates Bridges Gap Between Business And Government At Paris Climate Meeting

There are many public spirited billionaires and Bill Gates knows many of them.  Gates is also well connected with many important government leaders.  This article describes one of the more promising approaches in the fight against global warming.  Gates wants governments to invest in basic research while he and other billionaires will fund investments in technologies that flow from the basic research.  Many of the investments will fail but some of them will pave the way for follow on investment.  Secretary of State John Kerry believes that renewable energy may be a greater business opportunity than the invention of the computer.