Rory Cellan-Jones from bbc said that He’s one of Hollywood’s biggest stars and, as Iron Man, is many moviegoers’ idea of what a tech tycoon should look like.But Robert Downey Jr has ambitions to play another role – that of an investor in technology to combat climate change.He tells Tech Tent he wants to step out of the make-believe world of his Avengers character and confront the real threat to the planet.”I’m not a kid any more. And I really want to find things that I think are dynamic and interesting and – tell me if I’m wrong – but isn’t this the space to be catching the buzz right now?”
The Footprint Coalition fund has already invested in a number of green businesses, including Cloud Paper – which makes toilet paper out of bamboo and has a mission to save a billion trees – and Ynsect, which turns mealworms into fertiliser and other products.
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