‘The Bill Gates Era of Climate Giving Has Ended’ – ‘Closing his (climate) policy & advocacy office and has laid off much of its staff’ – Gates was ‘instrumental to the lobbying effort to pass the IRA’
By Marc Morano
March 15, 2025
The Bill Gates Era of Climate Giving Has Ended
Breakthrough Energy is winding down its policy and advocacy office, depriving the Inflation Reduction Act of a powerful defender.
By Robinson Meyer•
March 12, 2025
This is part of a Heatmap series on the “green freeze” under Trump.
A major chapter in climate giving has ended.
Breakthrough Energy, the climate philanthropy organization founded by Bill Gates, is closing its policy and advocacy office and has laid off much of its staff in Washington, D.C., Heatmap News has learned.
The layoffs will effectively gut an organization central to the effort to enact the package of clean energy tax cuts passed during the Biden administration. They will also silence one of the few environmental nonprofits that supported nuclear energy, direct air capture, and other new zero-carbon energy innovations.
More than three dozen employees across the United States and Europe are affected by the layoffs, including the office’s senior leadership.
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