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The bean counters in the crowd ask about share dilution to which both MacDonald and fellow panelist Richard MacKellar, former CEO of Brightside Technologies (bought by Dell Inc.) answer “significant” and “don’t expect to get majority ownership in the renewable energy business - it’s just not possible.”

From the back, a keen, 20-something engineering Ph.D candidate piques with the question to the former MIT professor, “where do you see renewable energy going?”

Almost 40 per cent of freshwater fish in Britain and Europe are threatened with extinction, a seven-year study has shown. Twelve species identified as being under threat have already died out and the research, the most comprehensive ever carried out on freshwater fish, named 200 others that are under threat.

Thomas Friedman on why we need to show leadership, and be CEO - Chief Energy Officer