bill gates: Neilson, who has worked with figures such as Bill Gates and Richard Branson, said the fund was inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion protesters in the UK in April, according to The Guardian. Neilson said the three founders were using their contacts among the global mega-rich to get a hundred times more in the weeks and months ahead. Trevor Neilson, an investor and philanthropist who has worked with some of the world's richest families, has teamed up with Rory Kennedy daughter of Robert Kennedy and Aileen Getty, whose family wealth comes from the oil industry, to launch the Climate Emergency Fund. This might be the single best chance we have to stop the greatest emergency we have ever faced, he told the Guardian. Global heating London to have climate similar to Barcelona by 2050Read more The money will initially be used to support school strike and Extinction Rebellion groups in the US, but will also be available to help seed similar groups around the world. The new fund has the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, who set up 350.org, and David Wallace Wells, who wrote international best seller Uninhabitable Earth, on its advisory board.
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