PRESS RELEASE: Copenhagen Summit to Add Business Voice to post-Kyoto Negotiations
The United Nations Global Compact, the Copenhagen Climate Council, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, will convene a World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen on 24-26 May 2009. The Summit aims to ensure that a new global policy framework on climate change takes into account the needs of the business community and provides the right incentives for cutting carbon emissions.

Nobel Laureate Professor Steve Chu, one of the world's most outspoken scientists on climate change, will address the Innovation in Climate and Energy Conference taking place in Copenhagen, June 18-19, as key note speaker. The conference, arranged by the Copenhagen Climate Council and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) of University of California, brings some of the world's foremost scientists together with industry and government leaders.

A short film illustrating what the Copenhagen Climate Council is all about.

“In essence we must forge a new industrial revolution - one based on clean, efficient, energy sources – in just four decades. That will require new forms of leadership from science, business and government. We cannot let the difficulty be an excuse for disengagement and inaction. Instead it must be the driver for even greater effort. With the focus now on the UN meeting in Copenhagen, over the coming two years, as members of the Copenhagen Climate Council we will do all in our power to build a global consensus on the treaty to be agreed in 2009. If the world is to maintain climate security into the future we believe there is no greater imperative.”

Tim Flannery, Professor and author, Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council