全球多名億萬富翁攜手推進清潔能源

Bill Gates has joined forces with Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Mukesh Ambani and a roll call of other billionaires in a push for billions of dollars of new private and public investment in “clean energy”.

比爾蓋茨(Bill Gates)已加入傑夫貝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)、馬雲、穆克什褠巴尼(Mukesh Ambani)和多位其他億萬富翁的行列，推動數十億美元的對“清潔能源”的民間和政府投資。

The initiative includes $10bn of new spending commitments from 20 governments — among them the US, China, India and Brazil — and was unveiled at the start of talks in Paris on Monday to create the first new global climate accord in 18 years.

這一行動包括來自20個國家政府的100億美元的新開支承諾——其中包括美國、中國、印度和巴西等國政府。該計劃是週一在巴黎磋商開始時披露的，這一磋商目的是爲了擬定18年來首個新的全球氣候變化協議。

The billionaires are vowing to build on government research with their own capital to help commercialise low-emission technology, bridging what they call a “near impassable valley of death” between promising concepts and viable products.

這些億萬富翁承諾，在政府研究的基礎上，利用他們自身資金幫助促進低排放技術的商業化，在有潛力的概念和切實可行的產品之間的鴻溝上架起一座橋樑。這條鴻溝被他們稱爲“近乎不可逾越的死亡之谷”。