These keen entrepreneurial minds will work together to help speed and scale solutions that will deliver a low-carbon economy. The vision is to mobilise capital, innovation, expertise and international collaboration to increase the effectiveness of climate change efforts already underway and to focus on filling any gaps. In 2009, Richard brought together a group of the world’s top entrepreneurs to initiate the Carbon War Room. Inspired by the role that elders play in traditional societies, as a source of advice, wisdom and experience, they took the idea to Nelson Mandela and were thrilled when he agreed to help bring a group of ‘global elders’ together.įounded in 2007 with the support of Virgin Unite and a great group of partners, The Elders convened visionary leaders including Graça Machel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and President Carter. Richard and his close friend, Peter Gabriel, had an idea about the need for a new leadership model for our ‘global village’. Richard has been working closely with Virgin Unite to bring together the right partners to help create new global leadership models to address conflict, climate change and disease. It is built on the belief that, the only way we can address the scale of the challenges facing the world today is by revolutionising the way businesses and the social sector work together – driving business as a force for good. It mobilises the talent and resources from across the Virgin Group and beyond, to tackle tough social and environmental problems in an entrepreneurial way. In 2004, Richard established Virgin Unite, his non-profit foundation. Virgin is one of the world’s most recognised and respected brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from air and ground travel to telecommunications, health, space travel and renewable energy through more than 200 companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people in 29 countries.
The crew will experience several minutes of weightlessness before beginning a descent back to Earth.Sir Richard Branson is Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group. After that, the VSS Unity will ignite its own rocket motor and soar beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Branson, along with two pilots and three mission specialists, will fly in a VSS Unity vehicle first to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15 km) with the help of a carrier aircraft.
Sunday’s flight will be Virgin Galactic’s fourth crewed test flight and one of the last before rolling out commercial service. She’s the last person who would want to do something like this,” he said, then quoted his wife telling him, laughing,”‘If you’re foolish enough to do these wonderful things, you can do it, but I won’t be going to your funeral.'” “My wife is the sort of person who would be terrified on a Virgin Atlantic airplane. Asked how his family reacted to the news, Branson said his children were excited, while his wife, Joan, was a bit nervous. Virgin Galactic announced Branson’s participation in the upcoming mission last week.
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