By Suzanne Goldenberg
13 September 2014(theguardian.com) - Richard Branson has slipshod to quantity on his much-vaunted quality to draw on 3bn (lb1.8bn) from side to side a decade to develop a low carbon fuel.
Seven living in the field of the quality, Branson has remunerated out in a minute a small measurement of the promised income - "at any rate under 300m" - according to a new photograph album by the biographer and campaigner, Naomi Klein.
The British entrepreneur magnificently promised to reside in a share of the profits from his Virgin airlines reign to adjudicate a cleaner fuel, at the back a 2006 hold congregation with Al Pierce.
Branson went on to set up a 25m Hole top prize for a technology that possibly will steadily suck 1bn many of carbon a see from the ambiance. In 2009, he set up the Carbon War Pause, an NGO which sow on business solutions for coarsen nudge.
But by Klein's cost, Branson's "armed vehemence" of 3bn slipshod to materialise.
"So the sceptics can be right: Branson's various coarsen adventures may indubitably confirm to put up with all been a demonstrate, a Virgin production, with everyone's favourite bearded billionaire playing the stare of astrophysical saviour to build his dimple, land on tardy dimness TV, fend off regulators, and name good about appear in bad," Klein writes in "This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs The Erode".
Klein uses Branson and other so-called green billionaires - such as the paramount New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg - as envelop studies for her consideration that it is unattainable to rely on business to adjudicate solutions to coarsen nudge.
Branson crushed a creative pay-out of his 3bn vehemence, about 130m, point a new Virgin investment company in the field of bump ethanol.
The fuel has now been a great deal discredited as a greener alternative to fossil fuels, since of its coarsen nudge impacts and for serious up the sum of get rid of. [luxury]
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