Biz people: Gore urges firms to act on warming
Japan's top business lobby could spark policy change on global warming by sending a strong message to its counterparts in the United States, former US Vice-President Al Gore (right) said in Tokyo yesterday.
Gore was speaking to executives at the Keidanren (Japanese Business Federation) as part of a campaign to promote his award-winning documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, which opens in Japan this week.
"The Japanese business community, because of the respect with which you are regarded, can have a powerful influence on the shaping of opinions within the US business community," said Gore, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2000.
"When that changes, then US policy will change," he said, urging the members of Keidanren to send the strongest possible message to big business in the United States.
(China Daily 01/16/2007 page16)
