| The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills Mark Harris for ProPublica. Source images: Getty Images, RMI. In November 2015, world leaders descended on Paris to negotiate a historic agreement to limit global warming. But on the summit's opening day, attention turned to a private citizen slouched awkwardly in a chair on stage: Bill Gates. Gates, with his characteristic flop of sandy hair, grinned impishly as President Barack Obama called him a 'visionary' and a 'driving force' behind a pair of pledges that both saw as key to the larger agreement. First the world's largest economies would double their spending on research into clean-energy technologies. Then investors like Gates would back the startups that emerged. The Microsoft cofounder had already enlisted two dozen other billionaires to join the effort. |
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