Recommended Tour Operators

Bargain Thomson Holidays - Click Here FirstChoice Holidays Simply Travel - Click Here! Kuoni Holidays

Virgin Pledges to Fight Global Warming

Virgin Pledges to Fight Global Warming

Sir Richard Branson, rebel billionnaire and head of the Virgin empire, has committed £1.6bn over 10 years to fight global warming.

He announced at a news conference at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York that he will hand over all the profits from the Virgin Group’s transport business to support the cause.

Sir Richard said: “We are very pleased today to be making a commitment to invest 100% of all future proceeds to the Virgin Group from our transportation interest into tackling global warming.”

“Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents.

“We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.”

The Virgin Group’s “transportation interests” include the Virgin Airline and Train businesses, whose proceeds would be invested in efforts to find renewable, sustainable energy sources.

The aim would be to help wean the world off oil and coal.

Sir Richard made his announcement on the second day of the annual conference hosted by former President Bill Clinton.

Mr Clinton praised the entrepreneur, calling him one of the most “creative” and “committed” people he had ever known.

The above is based on a Sky News article on 21st September 2006

If you want a taste of the Virgin travel businesses then the Virgin Holidays and Virgin Atlantic web sites are worth exploring.