Branson to Invest Billions To Combat Global Warming
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LONDON, Sept. 21 -- Iconoclastic British billionaire Richard Branson pledged Thursday to invest all profit from his Virgin Group airline and train businesses over the next decade -- an estimated $3 billion -- to fight global warming and promote alternative energy.
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British tycoon Richard Branson announced a plan for the world's first commercial space flights, saying &quot;thousands&quot; of fee-paying astronauts could be sent into orbit in the near future.
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UNITED NATIONS -- To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.The U.N.
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British billionaire Richard Branson   said on Wednesday that he was looking to set up music festivals   in several countries as rock stars take to the road to offset   dwindling music sales.
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Existing technologies could stop the escalation of global warming for 50 years and work on implementing them can begin immediately, according to an analysis by Princeton University scientists.
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An international group of corporate leaders calls for global targets on reducing greenhouse emissions.
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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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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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Seeking to bolster its credentials on global warming, the United States signed an agreement Tuesday with 13 other nations that calls for investing up to $53 million in companies that will profitably control emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas.
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The Bush administration yesterday laid out a long-term "strategic plan" for using technology to curb the impact of global warming, reiterating its position that basic scientific research and voluntary actions can curb greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
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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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More than 100 corporate heads, international organizations and experts set out a plan on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions, calling on governments to act urgently against global warming.
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Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised to reduce by 10 million tons annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced.
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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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LONDON - Airline tycoon Richard Branson announced on Friday a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to ...Comment
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Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has pledged to donate $3bn (Â£1.6bn) to fight global warning.
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Billionaire Virgin Group Chairman   Richard Branson on Thursday committed an estimated $3 billion   over the next 10 years, or all of the profits from his airline   and rail businesses, to combating global warming.