After fighting villains as Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr is launching funds in environmental fight - Celebrity
As inventor Tony Stark, Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr transformed into superhero Iron Man. Now the Oscar nominee is taking action against environmental threats to the planet. Downey is looking to sustainable technology to tackle issues like deforestation and microplastics. The Iron Man and Avengers star, 55, announced on Wednesday he was launching venture capital funds, aiming to “accelerate groundbreaking technologies that are addressing the world’s largest environmental challenges”. Mar 22, 2015 at 11:21am PDT Downey’s FootPrint Coalition, founded in 2019 and made up of “inv...