Global Industry Should be able to Stabilize the Climate, says Richard Branson
If governments fail to reach agreement on tackling climate change, global industry should be able to remove 17 billion tons of projected CO2e emissions by 2020 and stabilize the climate, Virgin chief Richard Branson has said at the UN climate talks in Cancun.
Carbon War Room, the nonprofit business group co-founded by Branson, aims to find ways for business to reduce emissions in 17 industries by one billion tones of CO2 each.
But he tempered his optimism that the world's entrepreneurs could slash emissions better than states by saying that governments had to set the framework for business to go green.
What do you think? Would global business have the knowhow or desire to want to make these changes and financial investments?
Source: guardian.co.uk
By Tony Hall, EcoBizCheck
