To Be, or Not to Be? New Leadership for a Sustainable Economy
Failure or success at COP15 will require the private sector to help guide the economy onto a sustainable path. On December 12, the Copenhagen Climate Council and the UN Global Compact will bring together business leaders at Hamlet's Kronborg Castle to help kick-start the low-carbon revolution.
On December 12, at Hamlet's Kronborg Castle, in Helsingør, just north of Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Climate Council and the UN Global Compact establish the basis for success at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP15) – and presents business leadership visions beyond 2009.
Success at COP15 is crucial to kick-start the low-carbon revolution. In the lead-up to COP15, the private sector has demonstrated true leadership. How will business leaders maintain this positive momentum into the future? And, if Copenhagen fails, how can we fill the leadership void and guide the economy onto a sustainable path? How can we engage not only CEOs, but also consumers, employees, and value chains?
Confirmed speakers and participants include:
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 Wain, 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; Tim 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
Side Events:Special Event: Climate Change and Water Vulnerability: Strategies and Practices for Emerging Water Management and Governance Challenges December 12, 2:30-3:45 p.m., Kronborg Castle, Chamber of Eric of Pommern Climate change is expanding the vulnerability of both people and ecosystems to disruptive impacts such as drought, increased frequency and intensity of weather events, alteration of agricultural productivity, migration of species and competition over available potable water supplies. These and other impacts create direct challenges to current approaches for managing water resources and for governance processes affecting their use. IPCC Chairman Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Jeff Seabright, Coca-Cola's Vice President for Environment and Water Resources, and other global leaders will present strategies for resolving these critical inter-related global challenges in an important special event organized by The Energy and Resources Institute, Yale University, and the World Environment Center. The review of these critical issues will be held in conjunction with the Copenhagen Climate Council and the United Nations Global Compact business side event at Kronborg Castle's Chamber of Eric of Pommern. A new White Paper on Climate Change and Water Vulnerability will be publicly released at this important event. |
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Take part in designing the new leadership for a sustainable economy. For more information, please contact Meik Wiking at mwi@mm.dk.
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The time for procrastination about climate change has long since passed; the world is in a state of emergency and further inaction is gross negligence.
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Because of the global urgency, there must be the political will to strive to contain the rise in temperature to less than 1°C above pre-industrial levels. and strict time frames must be imposed, so that overall global emissions will begin to be reversed as of 2010. There must be a target of 30% below 1990 levels by 2015, 50% below by 2020, 75% by 2030, 85% by 2040 and 100% below by 2050.