Title: Al Gore visits Lake Geneva region
ALGOREismylife - February 27, 2008 10:49 PM (GMT)
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Al Gore visits Lake Geneva region
The former US vice-president and Nobel Prize winner, visiting Lausanne in April to pick up an honorary degree, also travels to Geneva next month to talk "sustainable" business.
Photo: Eric Lee | Al Gore in a scene from the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Former American vice-president Al Gore is set to visit Geneva to promote investing in environmentally friendly companies. His appearance on March 11 comes just over a month before he travels to the Lake Geneva region in mid-April to receive an award. The Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is conferring an honorary doctorate on Gore for his work in promoting the issue of climate change. The politician was co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize last year for championing the issue through such means as the Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, which aims to educate the public about the effect of human activities on global warming.
But Gore, the unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for American president in the 2000 election, has another reason to visit the Lake Geneva region. Last fall an investment company he is involved with signed an agreement with Geneva-based Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Company. Gore’s company, Generation Investment Management, joined forces with the private bank to promote investing in sustainable companies. LODH is the European partner in distributing the investment company’s “equity strategy” throughout continental Europe.
Gore co-founded Generation Investment with David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Gore will travel to Geneva on March 11 to talk about the alliance in detail, François Mutter of LODH said Monday. Blood, Gore and LODH senior partner Thierry Lombard will outline their investment strategy during a press conference at the Geneva airport, he said. Generation said it has developed a strategy based on the conviction that sustainability factors – such as economic, social, environmental, ethical and governance issues – directly affect a company’s share price over the long term.
Established in 2004, Generation is investing in 30 to 50 companies worldwide that it believes have the potential to create long-term investment value.
Meanwhile, a ceremony will be held at EPFL on April 15 when Gore will receive an honorary degree. "Gore made global warming an issue for debate at a time when no one, in the US in particular, was discussing it," EPFL President Patrick Aebischer told the Zurich newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. Although the Lausanne institute is a school for scientists, Aebischer said it also honors people who highlight scientific research that benefits society.
Al Gore visits Lake Geneva region
The former US vice-president and Nobel Prize winner, visiting Lausanne in April to pick up an honorary degree, also travels to Geneva next month to talk "sustainable" business.
Photo: Eric Lee | Al Gore in a scene from the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Former American vice-president Al Gore is set to visit Geneva to promote investing in environmentally friendly companies. His appearance on March 11 comes just over a month before he travels to the Lake Geneva region in mid-April to receive an award. The Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is conferring an honorary doctorate on Gore for his work in promoting the issue of climate change. The politician was co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize last year for championing the issue through such means as the Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, which aims to educate the public about the effect of human activities on global warming.
But Gore, the unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for American president in the 2000 election, has another reason to visit the Lake Geneva region. Last fall an investment company he is involved with signed an agreement with Geneva-based Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Company. Gore’s company, Generation Investment Management, joined forces with the private bank to promote investing in sustainable companies. LODH is the European partner in distributing the investment company’s “equity strategy” throughout continental Europe.
Gore co-founded Generation Investment with David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Gore will travel to Geneva on March 11 to talk about the alliance in detail, François Mutter of LODH said Monday. Blood, Gore and LODH senior partner Thierry Lombard will outline their investment strategy during a press conference at the Geneva airport, he said. Generation said it has developed a strategy based on the conviction that sustainability factors – such as economic, social, environmental, ethical and governance issues – directly affect a company’s share price over the long term.
Established in 2004, Generation is investing in 30 to 50 companies worldwide that it believes have the potential to create long-term investment value.
Meanwhile, a ceremony will be held at EPFL on April 15 when Gore will receive an honorary degree. "Gore made global warming an issue for debate at a time when no one, in the US in particular, was discussing it," EPFL President Patrick Aebischer told the Zurich newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. Although the Lausanne institute is a school for scientists, Aebischer said it also honors people who highlight scientific research that benefits society.
Wayne in WA State - February 28, 2008 10:55 AM (GMT)
If you're interested in making money, study Al Gore. He has earned over 100 million dollars since becoming a private citizen in 2001!!
Special adviser to Google; On the board of directors of Apple Computer; partner in a forward-looking investment firm :good: I have no problem with earth-friendly free enterprise :D We have seen money from the future and it's color is green
Special adviser to Google; On the board of directors of Apple Computer; partner in a forward-looking investment firm :good: I have no problem with earth-friendly free enterprise :D We have seen money from the future and it's color is green
The Paraclete - February 28, 2008 05:41 PM (GMT)
Wayne, this all but PROOF that Al Gore has been doing positive 'works' since 2001...in another thread we have 'trolls' with the bemoaning Stolen Election Of 2000 story trying to bring down members and visitors to this 'forum'...if AL GORE had been 'burning a torch' for the last 7 years then he would NOT have made $100,000,000...but NOT only THAT...he would have NOT won a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE either! :!:
That is WHY we ALL want a MAN like Al Gore as a PRESIDENT!...He would teach ALL AMERICANS his FINANCIAL SECRETS! Al Gore KNOWS the FUTURE of AMERICA is making ALL CITIZENS...ENTREPENEURS! And the INTERNET is the WAY to DO IT! ;)
IMAGINE THAT! A NATION OF RETAILERS ON-LINE! A NATION OF DREAMERS WRITING THE NOVEL OF THIS COUNTRY WE CALL THE UNITED STATES ON-LINE! MARKETING PRODUCTS AND IDEAS ON-LINE! :good:
That is WHY we ALL want a MAN like Al Gore as a PRESIDENT!...He would teach ALL AMERICANS his FINANCIAL SECRETS! Al Gore KNOWS the FUTURE of AMERICA is making ALL CITIZENS...ENTREPENEURS! And the INTERNET is the WAY to DO IT! ;)
IMAGINE THAT! A NATION OF RETAILERS ON-LINE! A NATION OF DREAMERS WRITING THE NOVEL OF THIS COUNTRY WE CALL THE UNITED STATES ON-LINE! MARKETING PRODUCTS AND IDEAS ON-LINE! :good: