Saturday, December 11, 2010

Cancún climate change talks: Richard Branson calls for global carbon taxes


Global industry should be able to remove 17bn tons of emissions by 2020, Virgin chief tells Cancún climate change summit

If governments fail to reach agreement on tackling climate change, global industry should be able to remove 17bn tons of projected CO2e emissions by 2020 and stabilise the climate, Virgin chief Richard Branson has said at the UN climate talks in Cancún.

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.

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