An Ambitious Climate Deal – To Be, or Not to Be? Danish Crown Prince Meets CEOs at Hamlet's Castle

Success at COP15 is vital to kick-start a low-carbon revolution which, to a large extent, will depend on private sector investment and innovation. At this groundbreaking event, leading CEOs will define what the success criteria at the Copenhagen talks must be in order to unleash low-carbon business potential.

Furthermore, the event will establish how business leaders will maintain a positive momentum, and – if the strongest possible agreement is not reached – how they can fill the leadership void and guide the economy onto a sustainable path beyond  2009. How not only CEOs, but also consumers, employees, and value chains can be engaged.

As Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations, will tell delegates more than 20 years after she first led calls for the development of more sustainable policies:

"'I believe the time has come for higher expectations, for common goals pursued together, for an increased political will to address our common future.' I wrote this in the foreword of Our Common Future – also known as the Brundtland Report – in 1987. In December 2009, during COP15, the time has come to unite behind these expectations, goals, and political will for a common future. Join me, business leaders, and climate experts at Hamlet's Castle, to answer the question: Our Common Future – to be, or not to be?"

Today's meeting , hosted by the Copenhagen Climate Council and the U.N. Global Compact, hopes to establish the basis for success at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP15) and present business leadership visions beyond 2009.

For speakers and delegates and more on the Copenhagen Climate Council see below.

Contact details to arrange one-on-ones with delegates:

Accenture - Chris Allieri: (646) 245 8937; Arla Foods - Theis Brøgger: +4540331047; Microsoft - Ben Evetts:  +44 7879 614941. Schneider Electric - Véronique Roquet Montegon: +33 6 86 49 05 77.

Other interviews and press matters: Sarah Pickering: +45 3164 1045

Constant news content and analysis during this event and throughout COP15 via: CopenhagenClimateCouncil.com and  Twitter.com/JustinGerdes in English, and www.mm.dk in Danish.

Confirmed speakers and participants include:

Georg Kell, director of UN Global Compact; Muhtar Kent, CEO, Coca Cola Company; Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway and Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations; Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC; Tom Zeller, Editor, New York Times; Tracy R. Wolstencroft, Managing Director, Global Head of Environmental Markets, Goldman Sachs; Peter Head, Director, Arup; James E. Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO, Duke Energy; Anders Eldrup, President & CEO, DONG Energy; Dominic Waughram, Senior Director, Head Environmental Initiatives, World Economic Forum; Carsten Bjerg, Group President, Grundfos; Ray Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Kevin McKinley, Deputy Secretary-General, International Organization for Standardization ISO; Dr. Henrik O. Madsen, CEO, DNV; Nick Main, Global Managing Partner Climate Change and Sustainability, Deloitte; Timothy Wirth, former US Senator and President of the UN Foundation; Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO, Schneider Electric; Christina Dell´Amore, Editor, National Geographic News; Li Xiaolin, Chairwoman and CEO, China Power International; Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact; John Carey, Senior Correspondent, Business Week; Louisa Bojesen, Anchor, CNBC; Jakob Simonsen, Director, UNDP; Dr. Janet Peace, V.P. Markets and Business Strategy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change; Jeroen van der Veer, Former Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell, Marc Gunther, Contributing Editor, FORTUNE Magazine, Daniel Kammen, Professor, Berkeley Institute of the Environment; Nicholas Eisenberger, Correspondent, Harvard Business Review; Phillipe Joubert, President, Alstom Power, Klaus Holse Andersen, Area Vice President of Western Europe and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft; Changhua Wu, Greater China Director, The Climate Group; Dan W. Reicher, Director, Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google.org.

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