Gore joins capital firm to focus on climate

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By The Associated Press
Published: November 13, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO — To anyone still holding out hope that Al Gore will run for president, it appears he has potentially more lucrative interests.

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Gore said Monday he's joining a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.

The former vice president, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his work on climate change, joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

The company and dozens of other venture firms are expanding into so-called "clean-tech” investments worldwide.

Gore is already serving as a senior adviser to Google Inc. and a member of the board at Apple Inc.

The star of the Academy Award-winning global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth,” is expected to be a high-profile, active partner at Kleiner Perkins.

He would not disclose his salary but said he'll donate it to Alliance for Climate Protection, an advocacy group he co-founded that focuses on accelerating policy solutions to the climate crisis.


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