Climate experts and celebrities converge on Maldives for Slow Life Symposium | Minivan News

“Ethanol was not a good idea because it freezes at 15,000 feet,” Branson noted.
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Speaking at the symposium on Saturday, Nasheed said it was “very clear, that regardless of whether you are rich or poor, too much carbon will kill us.”

“For us, this is not just an environmental issue. We need to become carbon neutral even if there was no such thing as climate change, simply because it is more economically viable. We spend more than 14 percent of our GDP on fossil fuel energy, which is more than our education and health budget combined.”
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UK environmentalist Jonathan Porritt, founder of Forum for the Future, observed that just by attending the Symposium he had contributed four tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
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However, he noted that travel and tourism was, overall, a “force for good in an increasingly troubled world.”