Most of America's leading scientists agree that urgent action is needed to check global warming, and many industrialists see opportunity rather than danger in promoting energy efficiency.
Backed by China's $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, its industrialists have gone on a global buying spree in Africa and Latin America, as well as in neighboring Russia and Kazakhstan, to lock up future energy supplies for its ravenous economy.
But Shell's chief executive admitted that the oil sector had its own credibility problem, enhanced by the fact that too many energy industrialists had been slow to acknowledge global warming.
This picture, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the quirky industrialist Tony Stark, has sold $457 million in global ticket sales.
They planned to form an alliance with industrialists to promote modern German design in the global marketplace.
The Indian conglomerate has been trying to offload its Scunthorpe-based long products division since a sale to the billionaire industrialist Gary Klesch, owner of the Klesch group of global industrial commodities, fell through in August.
But now that he is mostly in cash, Mr. Prokhorov is on top of the world, while the global economic crisis upends the rules by which the Kremlin and the immensely wealthy industrialists known as oligarchs do business.
"Either Brazil makes up for lost time and reformulates its trade-negotiation strategy, or it will become ever more isolated in the real world of global trade and investment," Rubens Barbosa, a former diplomat and consultant for the São Paulo industrialists' federation, wrote recently.That is the world in which the Pacific Alliance aspires to a growing role.
Branson launched the B Team, a group of business leaders including Paul Polman of Unilever and the Indian industrialist Ratan Tata to challenge world leaders to commit to a global goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
