Mission Innovation is a global initiative to accelerate public and private

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innovation to

address climate change Climate change mitigation is action to limit climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases or removing those gases from the atmosphere. The recent rise in global average temperature is mostly caused by emissions from fossil fuels b ...

, make clean energy affordable to consumers, and create

green jobs Green jobs (green-collar jobs, sustainability jobs, eco jobs or environmental jobs) are, according to the United Nations Environment Program, "work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development (R&D), administrative, and serv ...

and commercial opportunities.

History

Mission Innovation was announced at

COP21 The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 was held in Paris, France, from 30 November to 12 December 2015. It was the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Conve ...

on 30 November 2015 by

President Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...

of the United States, on behalf of the founding Governments. At the same time

Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions ...

launched Breakthrough Energy. Also on stage for the launch was President Hollande of France and

Prime Minister Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from ...

of India. At the launch, 20 countries committed to double their respective

research and development over the five years to 2020. For the

US Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United States. ...

, this translates into an additional $4 billion by the end of 2020. The countries include the five most populous (as at 2015): China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil. All 20 launch partner countries represent 75 percent of the world's emissions from electricity, and over 80 percent of the world's clean energy R&D investment. Scientists, academics, and officials who had called for a

Global Apollo Programme The Global Apollo Programme was a historic call for a major global science and economics research programme to make Renewable energy, carbon-free Base load power plant, baseload electricity less costly than Fossil fuel power station, electricity fro ...

earlier in 2015 commented that the group should set a specific target to make clean electricity cheaper to produce than coal, preferably by 2025.

Technology focus

In November 2016, the member governments agreed to co-ordinate their efforts around seven "Innovation Challenges," and added an eighth Innovation Challenge in 2018. They are: * Smart grids * Off-grid access to electricity *

Carbon capture Carbon capture may refer to: * Carbon capture and utilization, where the captured carbon dioxide is used * Carbon sequestration, where the captured carbon dioxide is stored ** Carbon capture and storage, referring to carbon sequestration from point ...

* Sustainable biofuels * Converting sunlight into solar fuels * Clean energy materials to sequester carbon in useful materials * Affordable heating & cooling of buildings * Renewable and clean

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Participating countries

The following are founder members: * Australia * Brazil * Canada * Chile * China * Denmark * France * Germany * India * Indonesia * Italy * Japan * Republic of Korea * Mexico * Netherlands * Norway * Saudi Arabia * United Arab Emirates * United Kingdom * United States

External links

mission-innovation.net

References

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History

Technology focus

Participating countries

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