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the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart knows out to his family and all of his fans. Of course, he was known for his music, but he was also known for his advocacy for the Lgbt Community as well as aids awareness. Poppy, don. Ian lee, thank you so much. Obviously, his music, but his advocacy. He came out later in life and did a lot for the gay community. Do you re
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Nearly a dozen deep-pocketed philanthropies announced on Saturday they will invest $450 million over the next three years to help countries launch national actions to tackle methane, the second-most prominent greenhouse gas, which has become a new focus of global climate negotiations. The philanthropies, which include the Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Sequoia Climate Foundation, will help accelerate the phase-down of methane emissions and other non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases.
experienced with this back in 2007, for example, he started a rain forest initiative. and he had conferences bringing together businesses, philanthropies. he got commitments from governments, $250 million from sweden and other scandinavian countries to put money into south america to prevent them from cutting down trees. so, you know, in the past, he has focused on very specific actions. that is what he is doing today. he and joe biden are asking financial institutions, big businesses, a lot of businesses now have esg. they are very much on the page of trying to mitigate climate change. and so i think we re going to have these people meeting with john kerry and with grant aps,
numbers. although there is an exercise under way in the bank as part of th the evolution of gender to see what we could do with the balance sheet to extract more from it and there is more interest if governments and philanthropies over time. that still doesn t do it. we re talking tens of billions not trillions in this effort so the only way is to find a way to get the private sector to believe this is part of their future. the truth is that renewable today is cheaper per unit than fossil fuel thanks to what has happened in the last three or four years on technology both of generation, but also of storage. and that is only going to keep improving. so there is a pathway. but that pathway seems to lead to the developed world currently because of the kinds of ricks that people perceive in some of the emerging markets. but i think we have to sit with people and who invest in it. understand what holds them back and find ways in the mdb system to think of a different playbook