Read This If You Think You Have Money-Making Climate-Change Solutions

Bertrand Piccard is a third-generation explorer whose ancestors have set records for altitude, depth, and speed and always with a purpose.

His grandfather, Auguste, floated into the stratosphere in 1931 to measure cosmic rays. His father, Jacques, went the other direction, exploring the deepest parts of the ocean. And Bertrand and his business partner, Andr Borschberg, spent the last decade financing, developing, and flying the first solar-powered airplane around the world.

They finished the journey eleven months ago, on July 26, 2016, when the Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Abu Dhabi. But this wasn't just an adventure. It was a mission to show that we can meet the climate challenge if we put our minds to it, and now Piccards Solar Impulse Foundation has launched the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions , which aims to identify and catalogue 1,000 profitable climate-change solutions and then match them with regions, governments, and most critically private-sector investors.

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