World Business Summit on Climate Change Partners

3C – Combat Climate Change

Combat Climate Change (3C) is business leaders' initiative endorsed and actively promoted by the top executives of 65 of the world's largest corporations. The main objective of 3C is to support the UNFCCC-led negotiation process to establish a new global agreement on climate change, and to mobilize companies and business leaders across the world to contribute knowledge, resources and leadership to this common goal.

The 3C Initiative was launched on January 11, 2007, by a statement appealing to the global community and all its representatives to join forces with business leaders around a common vision of a low-emitting, sustainable society ,and to cooperate to create a roadmap that leads to its realization. Participants in the 3C initiative believe that this is truly "mission possible" and that success will depend on market-based solutions.

In November 2007, 3C followed its initial call to action with a set of concrete recommendations on policy priorities for the world's politicians. These recommendations, which are presented in the 3C Roadmap, are based on thorough analysis of how to reduce emissions cost-effectively throughout the global economy. During 2008, these recommendations were further refined in a set of white papers focusing on the important areas of carbon trading, efficiency and technology development and deployment.

http://www.combatclimatechange.org/

The Climate Group

The Climate Group is an independent, not-for-profit organisation working internationally with government and business leaders to advance smart policies and technologies to cut global emissions and accelerate a low-carbon economy. Its global coalition of companies, states, regions, and cities around the world recognise the economic and environmental imperatives of taking decisive action now. The Climate Group was founded in 2004 and has operations in Australia, China, Europe, India, and North America.

http://www.theclimategroup.org

UN Global Compact

The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies in order to build markets, combat corruption, safeguard the environment, and ensure social inclusion. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can and do help ensure that markets, commerce, technology, and finance advance in ways that benefit climate, economies, and societies everywhere, and so far the activities have resulted in unprecedented partnerships and openness among business, government, civil society, labour, and the United Nations. The UN Global Compact today stands as the largest corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative in the world – with over 5,500 corporate participants and stakeholders from over 130 countries.

Supported by: Being a UN-initiated program, the Foundation for the Global Compact has been established to raise funds on behalf of the UN Global Compact Office. Beneficiaries are private corporations.

http://www.unglobalcompact.org

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development. The WBCSD, which has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was founded on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and today comprises some 200 members drawn from more than 35 countries and 20 major industrial sectors, involving some 1,000 business leaders globally. The purpose of the WBCSD is to provide a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.

Supported by: WBCSD is funded by its members.

http://www.wbcsd.org

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation, based in Cologny, near Geneva. The WEF is one of the foremost global community of business, political, intellectual, and other leaders of society who are committed to improving the state of the world, i.e. to promote the idea that "economic progress without social development is not sustainable, while social development without economic progress is not feasible." WEF thus engages in work that combines economic strategies with approaches to issues such as HIV/AIDS treatment, hunger, and terrorism. WEF's view on climate change is that the world leaders – both business and government – should act now, as inaction will only make future action even more costly (read the WEF Recommentdations to the G8 Leaders – July 2008 – worked out in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Supported by: WEF is supported by membership fees, partnership fees, and fees from the annual WEF Meeting in Davos.

htt://www.weforum.org

Other Copenhagen Climate Council Partners

Chinadialogue

Chinadialogue.net is the world's first fully bilingual Chinese-English website, devoted to fostering constructive dialogue on environmental and climate change issues between China and the world. It believes that the problems associated with climate change – species loss, pollution, water scarcity, and environmental damage are not problems confined to one country alone, but concern all the world's citizens.

Chinadialogue believes that building effective solutions demands a shared effort based on a shared understanding, and for this reason Chinadialogue has established a common space, open to all. Chinadialogue's editor, Isabel Hilton, is a London based writer and broadcaster with a long experience of China. She is supported by editorial teams in London, Beijing, and the United States and has established a network of partnerships to support Chinadialogue's work.

Launched in July 2006, Chinadialogue is now read in more than 180 countries around the world and in all regions of China. Their contributors include Nobel Prize winners George Akerlof, Al Gore, and Wangari Maathai and leading thinkers from business, environment, NGO, and policy circles. Chinadialogue publishes environmental journalism from China and around the world, and Chinadialogue's bilingual forum attracts comments from all sectors of society. Its articles are widely reproduced in Chinese media and on the Chinese Web, and closely read by Western correspondents in China.

Chinadialogue is recognised as a respected, independent, and influential voice that provides a bridge across the barriers of language and culture, between concerned citizens, policy-makers, experts, and activists for the exchange of information, support and experience.

Supported by: Chinadialogue is funded by a range of institutional supporters, including several major charitable foundations and the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, chinadialogue's advisory board includes such leading figures as Pan Jiahua, of CASS, the former Hong Kong governor and E.U. Commissioner, Lord Patten of Barnes, the eminent environmental thinker, Sir Crispin Tickell, prominent Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun, and the pioneering environmental lawyer Wang Canfa.

Link: www.Chinadialogue.net

CITRIS - The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society – CITRIS – is a scientific collaboration among industrial researchers from over 60 corporations, and more than 300 faculty members and thousands of students from numerous departments at four campuses of the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz). Together, the many diverse research groups innovate new IT-based solutions to many of the concerns that face all of us today, from monitoring the environment and finding viable, sustainable energy alternatives to simplifying health care delivery and developing secure systems for electronic medical records and remote diagnosis, all of which will ultimately boost economic productivity.

CITRIS has a rich tradition of seeding new research, expanding industry partnerships, developing and strengthening its physical and cyber infrastructures, and increasing its collaboration efforts. These efforts will continue to grow as CITRIS embraces an expanding alliance of international collaborations. In particular, the CITRIS / Copenhagen Climate Council Climate Navigator will embody a joint, Web-based program of information distillation and dissemination, as well as a portal of some of the most important climate and energy modeling and roadmapping efforts in the world.

Supported by: CITRIS' funding comes from a combination of sources: state funds, industrial gifts, and UC campus funds.

Link: www.citris-uc.org

Energy Crossroads

Energy Crossroads (EC) is an international network of students advancing clean energy solutions. Starting as a conference about Green Energy at Stanford University, California, EC is now a global organization with departments in Stanford, Copenhagen and Singapore – and with more coming in China, India, and South Africa, and soon other locations around the world.

The mission of Energy Crossroads is to mobilize a coalition of "rising young leaders from across sectors, disciplines, and countries to advance clean energy as a unifying solution to national security, environmental, and economic challenges." According to EC, whether one is a tree-hugging environmentalist, a national security hawk, or a clean-tech entrepreneur, we all have a stake in a cleaner, more secure, and more prosperous energy future. The activities of Energy Crossroads are thus designed to engage, educate, and empower students and EC community members to deliver clean energy solutions.

Supported by: Energy Crossroads is supported by comitted universities along with corporate and public sponsors and partners.

Link: www.energycrossroads.org

Globe International

The U.K.-based Globe International was founded in 1989 as an inter-parliamentary group between the U.S. Congress and European Parliament. Its purpose is to facilitate high level dialogues as well as informal discussions on key environmental issues, such as climate change, connecting legislators with international business leaders and civil society representatives. GLOBE thereby seeks to smooth the progress of common understanding, and to promote the development of personal and professional relationships between individual parliamentary leaders.

For example, GLOBE has established a parallel dialogue for legislators, business leaders, and key civil society representatives to shadow the G8+5 discussion on climate change through to 2008. GLOBE's Tokyo forum in June 2008 culminated in consensus agreement by the G8+5 delegations of legislators on a post-2012 climate change framework. This paper, authored and negotiated by Lord Michael Jay (Tony Blair's G8 Sherpa in 2005 and 2006), was presented, together with working group papers on Adaptation, Biofuels, Energy Efficiency, Market Mechanisms and Technology, to the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ahead of the G8 Summit in Toyako. The papers can be found on the GLOBE website (see link below).

GLOBE is working closely with the Italian G8 team to prepare for an ambitious G8 summit in 2009 and will be hosting G8+5 legislators' forums in Rome in June 2009, just ahead of the Italian G8 Summit, and in Copenhagen in October 2009, just ahead of COP15. GLOBE International's president is currently Rt Hon Elliot Morley MP who also serves as the U.K. Prime Minister's Special Representative. Mr. Morley was previously an environment minister in the U.K. for 9 years.

Supported by: GLOBE International receives support from governments, inter-governmental bodies such as the World Bank, and also from corporate membership of GLOBE's policy themed dialogues.

Link: www.globeinternational.org