International Meeting In Denmark To Discuss Climate Change
An international medley of business leaders, scientists from a variety of fieldsn and politicians are scheduled to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sunday to discuss the role that industry can play in the fight against global climate change.
The World Business Summit on Climate Change has assigned itself the challenging task of seeking out ways for world manufacturers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while remaining profitable in one of the bleakest economic environments that the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930′s.
“The importance of businesses’ contributions to a climate agreement makes this a supremely important opportunity,” said Denmark’s Minister of Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard in a press statement.
Conference leaders hope that the meeting will also provide a forum for business leaders from diverse branches of industry to form mutually beneficial partnerships in helping each other to develop and share new low-carbon emission technologies without further impinging on economic growth.
A few of the most prominent of the 700 international delegates taking part in the summit include UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and former U.S. presidential candidate turned environmentalist-superstar Al Gore.
Scheduled to take place some six months before the UN’s Climate Change Conference in the Danish capital, the meeting is being organized by Mandag Morgen, one of Scandinavia’s largest and most influential independent think tanks.
At the event, delegates intend to explore how business can help solve the climate crisis through innovative business models, new partnerships and the development of low carbon technologies. According to official statements, the event organizers say they hope to send a strong message to the participating governments on how to remove barriers and create incentives for the implementation of climate solutions in a “post-Kyoto framework”.
In essence, summit organizers hope to lay the groundwork for a new treaty on global warming to will replace the Kyoto Protocol that is set to expire in 2012.
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