Tech billionaires investing in clean energy

Bill Gates has a group of wealthy investors gathered in the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to support research into renewable energy.

In a video on the website of the initiative, which Monday was launched on the first than of the climate summit in Paris, Gates said the aim is to help companies ' innovations in the field of clean energy from the lab to the market get '. Zuckerberg left his followers on Facebook know clean energy as a crucial part of working towards a better world to see. " We hope this will encourage more partners to give innovation a priority in the fight against climate change. " In total there are 28 investors from around the world in the group, including Mukesh Ambani of the Indian company Reliance Industries Limited, Prince Al- Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, Aliko Dangote of the Dangote Group in Nigeria and the British billionaire Richard Branson.