Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, Mr Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook and many others from the technology field, created the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a non-profit organization that will undertake research for new nets alternatives types of energy.
This new organization will provide financial support for new efforts to clean alternative forms of energy, and at the same time will help plans and new ideas for less power consumption from power sources.
In addition to Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, the new Breakthrough Energy Coalition project is supported by major personalities of the global technology scene, such as Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group), Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder and CEO), Jack Ma (Alibaba founder and Chairman), Meg Whitman (HP CEO, and former eBay CEO), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder and CEO), Hasso Plattner (SAP co-founder and CEO), and Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder and CEO).
In addition, the project is reportedly supported by lesser-known businessmen such as Mukesh Ambani, John Arnold, Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Patrice Motsepe, Ray Dalio, Xavier Niel, Ratan Tata, Tom Steyer, Aliko Dangote, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr , Priscilla Chan (Zuckerberg), Nat Simons, Laura Baxter-Simons, Julian Robertson, Masayoshi Son, George Soros, Chris Hohn, Zhang Xin, Pan Shiy and the University of California.
The news comes shortly before the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Paris next week. Rumors say that Bill Gates is set to present with Barack Obama a new initiative called Mission Innovation.
The Mission Innovation project has similar goals to those of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which will only apply to countries as members.
Up to now, 20 countries have agreed to participate and commit funds for research on clean sources of energy, within the framework of Innovation Mission.
