Sunday, June 19, 2011

Greenpeace activist turned tycoon Leggett has made a fortune in the global warming 'industry'

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Jeremy Leggett, the Greenpeace activist who lobbied the re-insurance industry at least as early as 1992, is from the UK, and has made a fortune via global warming cash cows, solar devices and carbon trading. After he left Greenpeace he became the

AND...HE CARES SO MUCH HE HAS A CARBON TRADING BUSINESS!

  • and

UK Guardian Profile: "Coming to the view that successful green businesses were badly needed in the global fight to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, he set up Solarcentury, currently the UK's

  • largest solar solutions company (1997-present)....
Jeremy is also a founding director of the world's first private equity fund for renewable energy, Bank Sarasin's New Energies Invest AG (2000-present), and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Environmental Change Unit (1998-present). He was a member of the UK Government's Renewables Advisory Board from 2002-6. He has been
  • appointed a CNN "Principal Voice" (2007)
and described by the Observer as "the UK's
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Reference: 7/24/2009, "Insurance and reinsurance in a changing climate," Encyclopedia of Earth, Canada Institute of Woodrow, V. Haufler

"Jeremy Leggett of Greenpeace International was one of the first to make the link between insurance losses and global warming. In 1992, he began to urge the insurance industry to take action against global warming, making numerous
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photo from UK Telegraph

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