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City businesses turn over green leaf

By John Willman, Business Editor

Published: March 27 2007 03:00 | Last updated: March 27 2007 03:00

"Everyone thinks they should say they should be green. But whenever I make a speech [questioning the case], lots of people come up to me afterwards and say they agree."

Stuart Wheeler, founder of the spread-betting company IG Index, is a rare figure in the City of London: a business chief who is prepared to question publicly the arguments for reducing carbon emissions at a time when they have become the new boardroom orthodoxy.

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