Scots billionaire hooks up with Bill Clinton in African carbon offset scheme

Filed under Projects, Tom Hunter
June 10, 2007 10:11 am

FOR most of us, saving the planet usually means a weekly trip to the local bottle bank. But for Scotland’s only billionaire, green living means reforesting swathes of Africa.

In his latest remarkable venture Sir Tom Hunter has teamed up with former US president Bill Clinton to plant up to 10 million trees across vast tracts of the continent in one of the most ambitious “carbon offsetting” schemes in the world.

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http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=906422007

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