Can philanthropists help fuel a global clean energy transition?

Placeholder while article actions loadGood morning and welcome to The Climate 202! Brady Dennis is taking over today while Maxine is out. Today we’re reading about how scientists found a secret forest at the bottom of a massive Chinese sinkhole. But first:Can philanthropists help fuel a global clean energy transition?At a summit this week in Kigali, Rwanda, billionaire and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg announced plans to spend $242 million to boost clean energy in 10 developing nations, part of an effort to help them — and ultimately the world — steer toward a greener future.Bloomberg already has spent more than a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars working to phase out coal and other fossil fuels, first in the United States and later in Europe. But while those campaigns were aimed at cutting the massive greenhouse gas emissions produced by the industrialized world,…

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