Branson promises $3 billion to fight global warming
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British billionaire Richard Branson on   Thursday committed to spending all the profits from his airline   and rail businesses -- an estimated $3 billion over the next 10   years -- on combating global warming.
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WASHINGTON - Seeking to bolster its credentials on global warming, the United States signed an agreement yesterday with 13 other nations that calls for investing up to $53 million in companies that could profitably control emissions of methane, a
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Billionaire Richard Branson hopes to entice researchers to seek methods to contain climate damage. By the Associated Press.
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British mogul Richard Branson pledged to spend three billion dollars in the next 10 years on a variety of projects to combat global warming and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
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Global banking giant HSBC donated 50 million pounds (73.5 million euros, 98.8 million dollars) Wednesday to set up a &quot;green task force&quot; to tackle climate change worldwide.
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Some of the world's top companies vowed Friday to step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying governments were failing to show sufficient leadership in the fight against global warming.
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The United States, which refused to participate in a United Nations-backed global plan to slow global warming, said on Tuesday it will spend nearly &#36;5.8 billion in 2005 on research and programs addressing climate change.
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British tycoon Richard Branson urged the aviation industry to join his Virgin Atlantic airline in an ambitious plan to combat the potential &quot;catastrophe&quot; of global warming.
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Can you hear him now: Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson said in Hong Kong that his company has earmarked $300 million for a cell phone joint venture in China.
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A world plan to fight global warming went  into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers as a lifeline for  the planet amid sniping at the United States for staying out.
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By Christopher Hope, Business Correspondent (Filed: 23/09/2004). Shell pledged yesterday to spend more cash on finding oil and gas over the next three years as the world&#39;s third largest oil company admitted
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Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has pledged to donate $3bn (Â£1.6bn) to fight global warming.
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Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the third- largest publicly traded oil company, plans to increase spending to $15 billion a year and drill more to replenish oil and gas reserves that had been overstated for years.
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A world plan to fight global warming goes into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia.
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Virgin Group boss Richard Branson said  on Friday he would aim to avoid buying fuel-thirsty  four-engined airplanes in future for both economic and  environmental reasons.
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The British billionaire Richard Branson and Al Gore announced a $25 million prize to reduce the planetâs warming gases.
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LONDON -- British billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, offered a $25 million prize yesterday for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the earth's atmosphere.