Japanese business can lead climate campaign: Gore - Reuters

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Japanese business can lead climate campaign: Gore

Reuters
Monday, January 15, 2007; 1:13 AM

TOKYO (Reuters) - 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 U.S. Vice
President Al Gore said in a speech in Tokyo on Monday.

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 U.S. business community,"
Gore said.

"When that changes, then U.S. policy will change," he said, urging the members of Keidanren
to send the strongest possible message to big business in the United States.

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