Microsoft's Gates plans multi-billion-dollar clean tech R&D initiative, India to be founding beneficiary

Microsoft's Gates plans multi-billion-dollar clean tech R&D initiative, India to be founding beneficiary

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gestures as he meets with China's Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing, November 12, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily/Files

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will launch a multi-billion-dollar clean energy research and development initiative with heads of state on Monday, the opening day of the U.N. climate change summit in Paris, the French government said Friday.

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