"Business as usual is not going to move us towards a carbon neutral world, " said Jeff Gazzard, of the Aviation Environment Federation, who nevertheless welcomes the Davos declaration.
This was owing to the fact that twenty years prior, Spain had been neutral in World War I.
As a neutral country during World War II, Portugal played host to spies, deposed royalty, black marketers and many others who came to stay at the hotel and play in the casino on the Estoril Coast outside Lisbon.
The bottom line is that enabling climate-neutral consumption in the developing world is vastly more important than reducing consumption in developed countries.
Jewish groups and lawyers for Holocaust survivors had been clamouring for three years for the return of wealth that flowed through neutral Switzerland during the second world war.
In 2000 we wanted to show leadership for this decade, so we became the first company in the world to be Climate Neutral certified so as to leave no footprint on this planet.
Copenhagen, for example, aims to be the world's first carbon neutral capital by 2025.
Topsy uses Twitter's high-volume fire hose of data to look at every tweet in the world, and establish a neutral baseline.
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He also talks about Corporate Social Responsibility in China, and a student-led initiative that has meant that CEIBS is the first certified carbon-neutral campus of any business school in the world.
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In a world with highly mobile capital, tax policy needs to be neutral toward different forms of business activity and not succumb to the temptation to pick winners and losers.
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By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.
The theory behind the network neutrality principle, which the internet sometimes gets close to, is that a neutral network should be expected to deliver the most to a nation and the world economically, by serving as an innovation platform, and socially, by facilitating the widest variety of interactions between people.
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The unique example which Switzerland sets as a neutral, internationally-minded, independent country is too valuable in today's uncertain world to dismiss as merely isolationist.
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