American Airlines, Microsoft Join Gates-Backed Program to Boost Clean Energy

American Airlines, Microsoft Join Gates-Backed Program to Boost Clean Energy
Microsoft founder Bill Gates attends a forum of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on Nov. 5, 2018. Matthew Knight/Pool via Reuters
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Several U.S. companies, including American Airlines Group Inc., General Motors and Microsoft Corp., on Monday build on their commitment to clean energy by joining billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy program.

The initiative aims to boost development of technologies to achieve the target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.