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Breakthrough Energy Coalition

Umbrella name of several organizations, founded by Bill Gates in 2015, that aim to accelerate innovation in sustainable energy and other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Nov 28, 2025
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What is the 'green antidote' associated with Bill Gates and what does it aim to achieve?

Bill Gates’ so‑called “green antidote” centers on driving the “Green Premium” — the extra cost of clean technologies versus fossil fuels — down to zero so innovation, markets and targeted policy make ...

Nov 25, 2025
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Has Bill Gates invested in cultivated (lab-grown) meat companies?

Bill Gates has invested—either personally or via vehicles he’s linked to—in multiple companies developing plant-based and cell-cultured meat, including early stakes in Memphis Meats (now Upside Foods)...

Dec 6, 2025
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How is Bill Gates involved in 'green antidote' projects or initiatives and which organizations fund them?

Bill Gates is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, a major vehicle through which he and allied investors have put at least $2 billion and invested in more than 150 climate-tech companies to lower the “...

Jan 16, 2026

Which institutional investors and venture funds have disclosed stakes in KoBold Metals and Critical Metals Corp in filings or press releases?

KoBold Metals has publicly disclosed a long list of institutional investors and prominent venture backers across multiple press reports and funding announcements—most notably Durable Capital Partners,...

Nov 16, 2025

Dose Bill Gates promote the product Sugar Wise?

Available reporting shows no credible evidence that Bill Gates promotes a consumer product called “Sugar Wise.” Some webpages describe scams and deepfaked celebrity endorsements that misuse Gates’s li...

Nov 27, 2025

Bill Gates green antadote

Bill Gates’ recent memo argues that development — reducing poverty, improving health and erasing the “green premium” for clean tech — is the best “antidote” to the harms of warming, not that climate a...

Oct 30, 2025

Has Bill Gates personally invested in SugarWise or similar sugar-reduction startups?

Bill Gates has no documented personal investment in Sugarwise, the U.K.-based sugar-certification group, nor is there evidence he personally funded SugarWise the diabetes app; public reports instead l...

Oct 29, 2025

Did Bill Gates personally invest in SugarWise and when was the investment announced?

The claim that Bill Gates personally invested in SugarWise is not supported by the assembled reporting: none of the provided analyses show evidence that Bill Gates or his core vehicles directly funded...

Jan 25, 2026

How effective are AI and satellite systems at predicting contrail‑forming regions in real time?

using AI fed by geostationary and low‑Earth satellite imagery is now demonstrably feasible and has yielded meaningful reductions in observed contrails during trial flights, but persistent scientific a...

Dec 21, 2025

Are there environmental or climate-focused initiatives tied to Bill Gates’s farmland holdings?

Bill Gates is the largest private owner of U.S. farmland and his ecosystem of investments and philanthropic programs has clear links to climate and environmental goals, but the connection between thos...

Dec 8, 2025

Is 'Bill Gateshreen' a real person or a misspelling related to Bill Gates?

There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that a person named “Bill Gateshreen” exists; mentions in the available sources consistently concern Bill Gates and his climate, energy and philanthropy ...

Nov 30, 2025

Does Bill Gates have a financial stake in SugarWise or its parent companies?

Available reporting shows Bill Gates has invested in at least one company working on cellulosic (non-food) sugar technologies — a 2019 round that included Gates and Total backing a cellulosic sugars c...

Nov 30, 2025

How have policy makers and developing countries reacted to proposals promoted by Bill Gates' climate philanthropy?

Policymakers and developing-country leaders have given a mixed reception to Bill Gates’s recent climate-philanthropy proposals: some praise the shift toward “human welfare” and innovation-focused solu...

Nov 8, 2025

Which investors are listed on Breakthrough Energy Ventures' public portfolio for 2015–2025 and does it include Sugarwise?

Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) publicly lists a cohort of high‑profile founding and institutional backers across its 2015–2025 materials, but the organisation does for that period, and reviewed so...

Nov 5, 2025

How have leading climate scientists like Katharine Hayhoe and Michael E. Mann responded to Bill Gates' claim?

Bill Gates’ recent public memo and essays arguing that the world should prioritize adaptation, health and development alongside selective technological fixes rather than treating emissions reductions ...

Oct 29, 2025

Are there any filings or press releases showing Bill Gates as an investor in Sugarwise (company) or Sugar Nutrition Ltd?

The available materials show in which Bill Gates is identified as an investor in Sugarwise or Sugar Nutrition Ltd; every provided document either lacks relevant content or discusses separate Gates-lin...