Copenhagen Climate Council

The Copenhagen Climate Council comprises 30 global leaders from business, science, and policy dedicated to create awareness of the importance of the UN COP15 Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, December 2009 – scheduled to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.

Climate Change Not a CEO or Board Member Concern – Ceres Report

By Lasse Skjoldan | December 31, 2008

A recent report from Ceres shows that many companies are still "largely ignoring climate change." The study, which included 63 of the world's largest consumer and information technology companies, reveals that only 11 have their boards receive climate-specific updates from management.

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Stanford Study: Renewables Good, Biofuels, CCS, and Nuclear Bad, for the Environment

By Lasse Skjoldan | December 18, 2008

In a recent study, Stanford professor Mark Jacobson ranks available alternatives for future energy supply. Comparing their energy potentials with overall impacts on climate change, the paper finds that renewables show much greater promise than biofuels, "clean coal" and nuclear efforts.

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Video: Obama Announces Steve Chu as Next U.S. Energy Secretary

By Justin Gerdes | December 17, 2008

At a press conference Monday, in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama introduced his energy and environmental team. Obama described Steve Chu, a member of the Copenhagen Climate Council, as "uniquely suited to be our next Secretary of Energy."

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Preventing the Sparks From Igniting the Roofs of All Our Homes

Justin Gerdes,
Web Editor,
Copenhagen Climate Council

As 2008 closed, the plodding progress in Poznan was put in stark relief by the release of three new reports documenting the alarming disappearance of ice in the Arctic. Let us resolve that 2009 be the year we finally heed warnings from scientists desperately trying to shake us into taking action.*

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Steve Chu

Steve Chu has been selected as the new U.S. Energy Secretary by President-elect Barack Obama. Chu has up until now been Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” Since 2004, he has directed the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory. Steve has made it his mission to challenge scientists to find environmentally friendly energy alternatives to fossil fuels.
U.S. Energy Secretary, as of Januray 20, 2009

Tim Flannery

Erik Rasmussen

Shai Agassi

Carsten Bjerg

Sir Richard Branson

James Cameron

Subhash Chandra

Steve Chu

Jørgen Mads Clausen

Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.

Anders Eldrup

Ditlev Engel

Yoichi Funabashi

Lord Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme

Daniel M. Kammen

Sir David King

Lise Kingo

Thomas E. Lovejoy

James Lovelock

Rob Morrison

Paul S. Otellini

Robert Purves AM

James E. Rogers

Dr. Zhengrong Shi

Björn Stigson

Sir Crispin Tickell

Moses Tsang

Jens Ulltveit-Moe

Li Xiaolin

David Blood

Masdar City: Making the Middle East a Mecca for Post-Oil Technologies

In Abu Dhabi, construction has begun on the world's first carbon-neutral city. The plan is for Masdar City to become the Silicon Valley of clean-tech, and to create the foundation for a post-oil Middle East.

A Lot of Good Energy at Carbon-Neutral Brøchner Hotels

In April 2008, Brøchner Hotels became the first hotel chain in the world to become carbon-neutral. By buying and retiring CO₂ quotas equivalent to its energy consumption, the Danish chain helps combat climate change while creating an "enormous goodwill" from costumers and employees alike.

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Denmark's Climate Negotiator: There Is Glue for the "Ultimate Puzzle" – a Climate Deal in Copenhagen

"There is glue out there and we will find it," Thomas Becker, Denmark's chief climate negotiator, recently told the Climate Community. The Bali Agreement lays out the path to replace the Kyoto Protocol, and there are signs that point to hope that an agreement will be struck in Copenhagen in 2009.

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World Future Energy Summit 19 - 21 January, 2009 | Abu Dhabi | Organized by: World Future Energy Summit

The World Future Energy Summit attracts thousands of leaders from around the world to debate the key issues around sustainable and renewable energy solutions and technolologies. Among the participants are Connie Hedegaard, Danish Climate Minister.

International Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change in West African Agriculture 1 - 6 February, 2009 | Ougadougou | Organized by: WMO

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Drylands Development Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are organizing this workshop that aims to present state-of-the-art papers, real world applications and innovative techniques for coping with climate change and offering recommendations for planning and implementing an effective Climate Change Adaptation Framework for West Africa.

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The Climate Community is your chance to influence the climate agenda.

The Climate Community gives you access to insights from and the ability to interact with high-level climate experts, opinion makers, decision makers, and business innovators.

One of the main activities on the Community is the “Virtual Summit,” a six-month-long series of online events, live interviews, and discussions that will culminate at the World Business Summit on Climate Change, in May 2009.