Those who have billions and have lost half of it, still have half of it left. Their lifestyles will not change. But the real impact will be on the people at the bottom.
-Professor Muhammad Yunus
Davos, 2009
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| Can social business be applied to environmental issues? |
| Social Businesses could also be created to fight climate change. For example, social business investors, with a strong environmental commitment, could invest in a company which plants trees, increasing the space under forest cover and oxygen in the atmosphere. Entire tracts of land where forests once existed could be regenerated through social business. Other potential areas can also be brought under forest cover through social business. |