Is Kleiner Perkins becoming the Carlyle Group of venture capital? It added Colin Powell in 2005 to help advise on bio-defense and other homeland security issues. Today it bolstered its cleantech practice with the addition of Al Gore as a partner. Yup, that Al Gore – former Veep, early Google investor and, of course, Nobel Prize-winning green evangelist.

The move is part of a larger collaboration with Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm that Gore co-founded and serves as chairman of. According to a statement, the partnership will be to “find, fund and accelerate green business, technology and policy solutions with the greatest potential to help solve the current climate crisis.”

KP will co-locate its European operations at Generation’s headquarters, with partner John Doerr joining the Generation advisory board. Gore will donate 100% of his KP salary to the Alliance for Climate Protection – a “non-partisan foundation he chairs that focuses on accelerating policy solutions to the climate crisis.”

It’s unclear if that includes carry…

美国知名风险投资公司Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers（简称KPCB）今日宣布，美国前副总统阿尔·戈尔将加盟该公司，出任合伙人一职。

　　此前，戈尔刚获得2007年诺贝尔和平奖。作为减缓全球气候变暖的倡议者，戈尔加盟KPCB之后，将致力于可替代能源投资。此外，戈尔还是苹果公司董事会成员和网络搜索引擎巨头谷歌公司高级顾问。

　　KPCB合伙人还包括分别投资计算机公司和可替代能源的著名投资人约翰·多尔和维诺德·科斯拉，以及美国前国务卿科林·鲍威尔。

　　据《财富》杂志报道，KPCB完成了一支约6亿美元规模的基金，准备投资于那些致力于减少二氧化碳排放的公司。

　　KPCB成立于1972年，以投资计算机起家，现正向能源领域进军。总部在美国，并于今年进入中国市场，成立了凯鹏华盈基金。