Branson commits $3 bln to fight global warming
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Billionaire British businessman   Richard Branson on Thursday committed $3 billion over the next   10 years to combating global warming.
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Virgin Group chief Richard Branson said yesterday he has earmarked US$300 million for a cellular phone joint venture on the Chinese mainland, the world&#39;s largest mobile market by users.
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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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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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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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HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is backing a new $100m initiative to tackle global climate change.
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Virgin chief Sir Richard Branson has launched what he called the world's biggest prize to inspire innovators to develop a way to remove greenhouse gases from the earth's atmosphere.
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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.
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By Justin Harper, Daily Mail, London  Feb. 17--One of the key themes in politics and business this year is  saving the planet. The World Economic Forum meeting in Davos focused on the  need for governments to fight climate change. Big businesses are starting to  take heed.
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After years of delays, a world plan  to fight global warming went 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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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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The Virgin chief Sir Richard Branson announced his company has signed an agreement potentially worth Â£14 million to secure the world&#39;s first commercial flights to space.
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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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One investor group has labeled 10 companies as 'laggards' in responding to climate change.
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THE burning and deforestation of Brazil&#39;s vast Amazon rain forest causes nearly 3 per cent of the world&#39;s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released today.
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Richard Branson pledges $3 billion to stop 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