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Alstom
Alstom is a global leader in power generation and rail transportation. The company designs, engineers, and manufactures all the key components for modern power stations, including their construction, providing a fully integrated solution. Alstom is an expert in the application of traditional technologies using coal, gas, and nuclear fuels, and is the world leader in hydro power and air quality control systems.
Alstom's expertise covers other renewable technologies such as wind and biomass, and is at the forefront in the race to develop new CO2 capture and storage technologies for the power and industrial sectors. The company also offers a comprehensive range of products and services for the refurbishment of existing power plants that is aimed to maximize efficiency, minimize emissions, and reduce electricity costs.
Alstom is committed to bringing to market a range of technological solutions to help the power sector meet the climate change challenge. But technological solutions alone are not enough. We believe that strong leadership from policy-makers is essential to establish a global regulatory framework on greenhouse gas emissions and create the foundations of predictability from which the industry can innovate, properly plan for, and operate in the future. We therefore strongly support a global climate change deal where world leaders commit to a significant effort to reduce emissions in the medium to long term.
We believe a global and well-developed carbon market is imperative to support and finance the further development and commercialization of low-carbon technologies. However, this is only one part of the framework that needs to be put in place. The commitment will also require a significant increase in public and private efforts in research, development, and demonstration of low carbon technologies such as CO2 capture and storage, including a clear plan for their timely roll out.
At the World Business Summit we look forward to contributing our expertise on low-carbon technologies and what it will take to ensure their roll out on a global scale.
Climate Consortium Denmark
Climate Consortium Denmark is set up as a joint venture between the Danish government and five major business organisations. The Consortium is dedicated to promoting Danish business and industry. In December 2009, Copenhagen will be the venue of COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and Climate Consortium Denmark will showcase a number of initiatives aimed at drawing the world's attention to Danish solutions.
http://www.cop15.dk/da/menu/Klimakonsortiet/
DONG Energy
Headquartered in Denmark, DONG Energy is active in sourcing, producing, distributing, trading, and selling energy in Northern Europe. As an energy company, DONG Energy has a special responsibility for producing energy in as environmentally friendly a manner as possible, and that responsibility we do not take lightly.
DONG Energy is a world leader in designing, constructing, and operating offshore wind farms. Similarly, DONG Energy is to be counted among the most efficient power operators in Europe, and specializes in using waste and biomass in its power plants. In transportation, DONG Energy has developed a promising second-generation bioethanol technology that transforms residual agricultural products, such as straw, into bioethanol. The company is also active in introducing the electrical car into Denmark.
Innovative energy solutions play an important role when it comes to solving the climate challenge. In order to speed up the development and deployment of climate-friendly energy solutions all over the world, DONG Energy supports the call for an ambitious climate-agreement at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this year. DONG Energy is convinced that the Copenhagen Climate Council and the World Business Summit can contribute to paving the way for such an agreement.
Masdar
Masdar, wholly owned by the Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), is Abu Dhabi's multi-faceted initiative in the development and commercialization of renewable energy and sustainable technology. Masdar addresses the entire value chain of renewable energy and sustainability through its various business units that include Utilities and Asset Management, Carbon Management, Property Development, Industries and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. It also hosts a global platform for collaboration for the renewable industry annually in Abu Dhabi under the banner of the World Future Energy Summit.
Masdar is developing a portfolio of solutions that includes a range of carbon monetisation and renewable utilities projects both in Abu Dhabi and abroad. In parallel, the company is investing in a number of innovative cleantech companies to further develop and deploy their technologies; it has also formed partnerships with several companies, some of which have resulted in joint ventures on large scale projects. The biggest project currently underway is Masdar City, a carbon-neutral, zero-waste cleantech hub fully powered by renewable sources of energy.
Abu Dhabi is leveraging its substantial resources and experience in global energy markets into the technologies of the future. The key objective of Masdar is to assist in the economic diversification of Abu Dhabi; positioning it as a world-class research and development hub for new energy technologies and maintaining the Emirate's position in future energy markets.
http://www.masdar.ae/en/home/index.aspx
Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a world leader in diabetes care. In addition, Novo Nordisk has a leading position within areas such as haemostasis management, growth hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy. With headquarters in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 26,000 employees in 80 countries, and markets its products in 179 countries. In January 2006, Novo Nordisk joined the WWF Climate Savers Programme. The agreement between WWF and Novo Nordisk commits the company to restructure energy consumption from Novo Nordisk global production sites so that CO2 emissions by 2014 will be 10% less than in 2004. The 10% absolute reduction target requires that growth in production and energy consumption is decoupled. The target is reached through three levers: Optimisation of production, energy savings and promotion of renewable energy. In 2007, DONG Energy and Novo Nordisk signed a partnership agreement that converts energy savings into green electricity supply to production facilities in Denmark.
Novozymes
Novozymesis the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries we create tomorrow's industrial biosolutions, improving our customers' business and the use of our planet's resources. In Novozymes, we aim at influencing opinion-leaders and COP15 decisions-makers towards an ambitious protocol. The COP15 conference constitutes a unique opportunity to position sustainable technologies, and an opportunity for Novozymes to brand our bio-technologies, our products, our company and our overall sustainability business model.
Scandinavian Airlines
SAS wants to create a responsible and sustainable traffic growth as well as reduce the environmental impact. This can be read in a new environmental strategy agreed on in March 2008. The goal is a 20% reduction in emissions in 2020. An ambitious environmental strategy which means a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions in 2020 per passenger kilometer. This goal must be reached through a specific effort on a number of isolated areas, for instance new technology, better exploitation of the aircrafts, more efficient and direct flights, green landings, fuel save programmes, an increase in replacement of the aircrafts and several other initiatives. SAS takes on an active role in the environmental debate and through the commitment in Greening Event Partner and Official Airline wants to work towards a reduced environmental impact. SAS works towards CO2 compensation of air travel in connection to COP15 and all conferences in this partnership. This will be carried out by buying CO2 reduction in renewable energy projects in a scale which matches the air travels in connection to the conferences.
The overall contribution to the CO2 emissions from air transport is only about 2% internationally. Still, it is crucial to work towards reducing the environmental impact, especially because air traffic is experiencing growth. Air transport is an essential precondition for global development whether it comes to trade, tourism, social exchange, exchange of knowledge or assistance. In other words, SAS is both part of the lobalization as well as part of the environmental impact. With this stock in the development, air transport also has a particular responsibility. So far, growth has meant an increase in environmental impact. It is the ambition of SAS to turn this development around.
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