Summit sponsors and media partners
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.
Audi
Vorsprung durch Technik (Advantage through technology)
Efficiency is an important aspect of the Audi brand values, where an increased focus on fuel consumption reduction – and thereby CO2-emissions – plays a great part. The Audi target point is to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% until 2012 without in any way to compromise the fascinating driving qualities and the dynamic design, that Audi is well known for. The Audi technicians have taken on the challenge of harmonizing efficiency and performance. The result is the implementation of the module-based efficiency strategy that is part of every new Audi on the market today.
Berlingske Tidende
Berlingske Tidende is the leading newspaper in Denmark, providing news, background, opinion, and analyses on a 24-hour basis online and in print. Berlingske Tidende is the oldest newspaper in Denmark, with prize-winning journalism covering Denmark and international affairs. Berlingske Tidende is the newspaper quoted most frequently on Danish television and radio.
Climate Consortium Denmark
Climate Consortium Denmark is set up as a joint venture between the Danish government and five major business organizations. 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/
CNBC
CNBC is the leading global broadcaster of live business and financial news and information, reporting directly from the major financial markets around the globe with three regional networks including CNBC in Asia, CNBC in EMEA and CNBC in the U.S. CNBC.com provides live streaming as well as an extensive video archive, database and analytical financial tools. CNBC is dedicated to CEOs, senior corporate executives; the financial services industry and private investors. The channel is available in over 400 million homes worldwide. CNBC is owned by NBC Universal, the broadcasting arm of GE.
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.
Global Passenger Network
Transportation for the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen is provided by Vikingbus A/S, the Danish member of the Global Passenger Network (GPN). GPN is an international organisation of high quality motor coach operators that, together with Vikingbus, is committed to supporting initiatives to improve the environment and promote climate-friendly transportation. GPN members offer a complete range of services, from airport transfers to tours to congress and event transport. They are at the forefront of environmental protection, participating in activities such as pilot programs that promote alternative energy sources and C02 reduction, as well as training staff in minimizing pollution. GPN and Vikingbus are convinced that the future of our planet is in our hands and are striving to make motor coach travel even greener.
International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune (IHT) is the premier international newspaper for opinion leaders and decision-makers around the globe. It combines the extensive resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times.
The IHT pays special attention to the pressures of climate change, limited fossil fuel resources, and the mainstreaming of "green" consciousness, and how they are reshaping society. A team of experienced energy and environment reporters cover these issues in the newspaper on a daily basis. They track and report on renewable energy policy, carbon markets, and dubious eco-advertising. All of this is available on iht.com's blog Green Inc.
The IHT is printed at 35 sites throughout the world and is for sale in more than 180 countries. Based in Paris since 1887, the IHT is part of The New York Times Company.
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
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society is one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations. Founded in 1888 to "increase and diffuse geographic knowledge," the Society works to inspire people to care about the planet. National Geographic reflects the world through its magazines, television programs, films, music and radio, books, DVDs, maps, exhibitions, school publishing programs, interactive media, and merchandise.
National Geographic magazine, the Society's official journal, published in English and 31 local-language editions, is read by more than 40 million people each month. The National Geographic Channel reaches 305 million households in 34 languages in 165 countries. National Geographic Digital Media receives more than 12 million visitors a month. National Geographic has funded more than 9,000 scientific research, conservation and exploration projects and supports an education program combating geography illiteracy.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
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 Program. 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: Optimization 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
Novozymes is 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 infl uencing 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.and our overall sustainability business model.
SAS
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 programs, 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 globalization 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.
Sponsorship and media partnership opportunities
To discuss sponsorship opportunities, please contact Christian Eika Frøkiær at cfr@mm.dk. For media partnership inquiries, please contact Sarah Pickering at spi@mm.dk.
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