World Business Summit on Climate Change
Delivering recommendations to a new climate treaty
COPENHAGEN 24-26 MAY 2009
Climate change, typically viewed as a threat, also presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead the next industrial revolution as the world shifts to a low carbon economy. At the World Business Summit on Climate Change, the Copenhagen Climate Council and the world's foremost low carbon pioneers will take the lead in kick-starting this industrial revolution.
The Summit's ambition is to demonstrate clearly that climate change is not just a risk and a challenge to humanity, but also a significant opportunity to create innovative solutions and new ventures that may result in better quality of life for millions of people across the world.
The Summit will bring together business leaders with the world's top scientists, economists, civil society, media leaders, politicians and other thought leaders to show how business can help solve the climate crisis through innovative business models, new partnerships and the development of low carbon technologie. The Summit will send a strong message to the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) on how to remove barriers and create incentives for implementation of new solutions in a post-Kyoto framework.
"It is an exciting and necessary project, to which the Danish Government gives its full support ... In my view, the World Business Summit on Climate Change will be a pivotal event that can deliver an important contribution to the political decisions to be made during the UN Climate Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in December 2009."
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, host of the 2009 UN Climate Conference
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Recommendations from the Summit will address the overall political framework and key business issues, including specific opportunities for rapid implementation of low carbon solutions, strategies and partnerships necessary to achieve sustained progress towards a competitive, dynamic low carbon economy and how the most successful companies are developing and implementing climate strategies.
In addition, the Summit will serve as a platform for individual businesses and major business initiatives to present their messages to the UN negotiations.
The World Business Summit on Climate Change will be formally convened by the Copenhagen Climate Council in collaboration with UN Global Compact, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Top executives from global companies will be joined by leaders from civil society and governments. Participants will be decision-makers and influencers, including chief executives, heads of state, government ministers, leading thinkers, advocates, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
The results of the Summit will be presented to the Danish Government, host of the UN Climate Change Conference in 2009, and to world leaders negotiating the terms of the next international climate treaty. Furthermore, participants in the Summit will be encouraged to convey the outcomes to their respective governments.
Download an overview of the World Business Summit on Climate Change here.
Further information
For further details, please contact Project Director Johannah Christensen at jc@mm.dk or +45 3393 9323.
