The first happened at the end of November, when a group of billionaires led by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos announced the creation of a $20 billion fund to back clean-energy research. On the same day, a group of 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, India, China, and Brazil, agreed to double their investment in green energy, to a total of $20 billion a year.
伦敦—上周在巴黎达成的全球协定其实是上个月所达成的第三项气候协定。第一项协定是11月底以比尔·盖茨、马克·扎克伯格和杰夫·贝佐斯为首的一群亿万富翁宣布成立一个200亿美元的基金支持清洁能源研究。同一天，包括美国、英国、德国、印度、中国和巴西在内的二十国同意将绿色能源投资扩大一倍，总额达到每年200亿美元。