Businesses accused of green hypocrisy

At a “summit” on the issue organised by the Guardian in London, Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth, accused Shell of sponsoring the event in a bid to align itself with green issues while failing to clean up its own act. They painted a frightening picture of life in 2050 when “tens of thousands” of pensioners could be dying in a London summer heatwave unless radical action was taken to halt additions to carbon levels. The mayor is already in talks with the Royal Horticultural Society about what trees would survive in the temperatures that could be expected by the middle of the century, he revealed.

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