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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Gates, Zuckerberg Put Their Cash Toward Clean Energy [Watch (HLS stream): Gates, Zuckerberg Put Their Cash Toward Clean Energy](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dw7TQCnR.m3u8) (0:38)  _Published 2015-11-30. The COP21 climate conference in Paris is underway, and some big names are promoting a global initiative that's pushing for a zero-emissions future._ --- Jul 27, 2023 7:14 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Climate Experts Say Clean Energy Shift Can and Must Lift Up Poorer Communities](/video/nopztflG/) ### Climate Experts Say Clean Energy Shift Can and Must Lift Up Poorer Communities [Bill Gates on Energy](/video/fn2oaC5b/) ### Bill Gates on Energy [Clean Out Your Closet and Make Some Cash MONEY](/video/0GBiOK7H/) ### Clean Out Your Closet and Make Some Cash MONEY --- ## Transcript Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and other big- name entrepreneurs, are teaming up to provide the world clean and renewable energy. Their initiative, dubbed the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, aims to join governments, ambassadors, and inventors. And the government's been there to fund the basic research. That was true for the Digital revolution. We need the basic research but we have to pair that [ MUSIC ] With people who were willing to fund high risk breakthrough energy companies. The goal is a zero emissions energy future and the group plans in investing broadly across sectors like electrical generation, transportation and agriculture. 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