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• 14 February 2007 - London, Agencies •
British entrepreneur Richard Branson, Virgin's owner, announced today that offers a prize of 19 million euros (25 million) who devise a formula to eliminate greenhouse gases the atmosphere.

Along with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and other leading environmentalists, Branson has encouraged the "world's brightest brains" to "devise a way to eliminate at least equivalent to 1,000 million tonnes carbon year, and hopefully many more. " "You will have the satisfaction of saving thousands of species and possibly humanity," said the owner of Virgin in a press conference in London.

The Virgin Earth Challenge , that's the name of the award is given to the person or group to achieve a commercially viable design which results in the removal of significant amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to achieve stability climate on Earth. The winner must be able to demonstrate that its design also has no contraindications and that its benefits are long lasting.

prize promoters include the timing for submission one week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that the warming is irreversible due to emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the industrial era.

"Unless we can devise a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, you will lose half the species on Earth, including polar bears and coral reefs, 100 million people will be displaced by to rising sea levels, farmlands will become deserts, "Branson has warned.

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Former U.S. Democratic vice, proposed this month to the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2007, has emphasized that human are not used to thinking about "a planetary emergency." "There is nothing in our prior history as a species that prepares us to imagine that we as human beings, we could be in the process destroy the habitability of the planet for ourselves," said Al Gore, who opts for an Oscar for best documentary his film "An Inconvenient Truth" about the risks of global warming.

The owner of Virgin has stressed that the Virgin Earth Challenge is the highest award offered to date and compared it with the competition held in 1714 by the British Government to find an effective method to determine the length for sailors. "Sixty years later, John Harrison received the award from King George III for having designed a chronometer (maritime clock) accurate and durable than helped save thousands of lives at sea, "he said.

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Al Gore calls for tightening the Kyoto Protocol . In Spain, all seem to agree with what we postulated.

• February 8, 2007 - Agencies / CA •
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a staunch activist in the fight against climate change, warned on Wednesday in Madrid of the most pernicious effects of climate change, and ensures that the company has "many weapons" to combat it, including cited the Kyoto Protocol, although committed to harden the multinational agreement.

Gore inaugurated in Madrid the first meeting on Energy, Municipality and Global Warming with a lecture entitled 'The greatest problem of humanity today: global warming and our action to combat it. "

Former U.S. vice president, who has turned his efforts in recent years in the fight against climate change, the same arguments presented in his film "An Inconvenient Truth ', with which it is nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary.

The day before Gore was greeted by the Prime Minister received at La Moncloa. Zapatero described the problem of global warming "the greatest challenge humanity."

In his presentation, accompanied his political involvement of numerous videos and photographs that show climate change and contrast past and present snapshots of Kilimanjaro, from Patagonia, the Alps, Siberia and the Himalayas. He warned, for example, that in the Himalayas born seven major rivers that supply drinking water to 40 percent of the population.

The former vice president with Bill Clinton and current candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Prince of Asturias International Cooperation reviewed the causes of global warming and its main effects and noted the increase in temperature, to higher level sea, the changing seasons, to the extinction of species or the emergence of new diseases.

Al Gore also warned of the proliferation of lobbyists who question climate change and noted that the same happened in the 50's and 60's when certain organizations raised doubts about the harmful effects of snuff

During the conference, Gore complained repeatedly that the United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol to combat climate change but said the initiatives at the federal level, such as California and City have emerged in your country to combat the phenomenon. Former Vice President

impact on that man has achieved significant technological challenges, among which cited the moon landing, and was convinced that it has the technological capacity to address this problem.

said that "not a political issue but moral," which is also a "generational challenge" and was convinced that the current generation is called upon to behave in a responsible manner.

In the same vein, the Minister of Environment of Spain, Cristina Narbona, said that tackling climate change is also a challenge "technological" challenge "ethical" because the poorest countries are least have contributed to this global phenomenon, however, have the most impact.

The minister recalled that the environmental movement were labeled alarmist and exaggerated when they started decades ago to warn of climate change and said that now there is scientific evidence that warming is is occurring.

Narbonne and Al Gore met before the start of the day and the minister took the opportunity to tell you about that Spain has promoted measures to combat global warming, among which the National Strategy to Combat Climate Change, the draft will be presented on day 13 to the National Climate Council.

Gore held that Spain has the capacity to lead in Europe to combat climate change and Madrid in turn may be the Community to head the policy within the country.

Al Gore was nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2007, a jury will meet in the first week of June in Oviedo, for various personalities and cultural institutions worldwide, among which are several universities that have found that Al Gore is one of the most important and influential leaders of the world in the fight against climate change.

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