MARKET forces alone are unable to prevent devastating climate change, Green Party Euro MP Caroline Lucas will tell the Oxford Union today.
Dr Lucas will argue that business has played a key role in causing climate change and largely remains indifferent to it in the quest for ever-increasing profits and growth.
The Green Party MEP for South-East England, a member of the European Parliament's International Trade and Environment Committees, will join Tory frontbencher Alan Duncan MP, Shell chief executive James Smith and South African opposition leader Tony Leon MP to debate whether business is the solution or the problem to tackling climate change.
She will argue, alongside Alan Duncan, that business is indeed part of the problem on the issue of climate change.
James Smith, Tony Leon and Sir Stuart Hampson will argue the opposite.
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