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Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs, Poznań – December 10, 2008 World Business Council Sustainable Developmen Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs Björn Stigson, WBCSD President December 10, 2008 COP14, Poznań
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Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs. Björn Stigson , WBCSD President December 10, 2008 COP14, Poznań. Coalition of 200+ leading companies Market capitalization: 8,000 BUSD Total member company employees:13 million Global outreach Supplies products and services to half of the world’s - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs, Poznań – December 10, 2008
World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
Adapting to Climate Change with ICTsBjörn Stigson, WBCSD President
December 10, 2008COP14, Poznań
Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs, Poznań – December 10, 2008
Coalition of 200+ leading companies
• Market capitalization: 8,000 BUSD
• Total member company employees:13 million
• Global outreach– Supplies products and services to half of the world’s
population every day
WBCSD
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Which sectors do our members represent?
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Elements of a Low Carbon Economy
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Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs, Poznań – December 10, 2008
Mission: Functioning Societies
Reward: Sustainability
Governments
SD Issues
The Space for doing Business
Mission: Efficient provision of goods and services that
society wants
Reward: Shareholder value
Business
Business societal contract
rules & constraints
Business license to operate, innovate and grow
Business and Sustainable Development
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IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2008
Current energy trends are patently unsustainable – socially, environmentally, economically.
To avoid “abrupt and irreversible” climate change we need a major decarbonization of the world’s energy system.
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Reductions in energy-related CO2 emissions in the climate policy scenarios
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Source: IEA. WEO 2008. Presentation by Dr. Fatih Birol
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The Global Energy and Climate House
Post-2012 Global Framework
Mindsets
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Yvo de Boer, Bali Global Business Day– "A new framework must make business
sense if it is to succeed."
– "What policies do you, as Business, want to see in a new global framework?”
– Need for specific recommendations from Business in a timely manner
Business Input into Climate Negotiations
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Virtual Negotiatorprovide the business context develop positions draft negotiations text
Contributorprovide business perspectives and solutions
Policy Development
The “Building Blocks”
WBCSD’s Copenhagen Roadmap
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Sectoral Approaches
Has become a mantra in international circles
But, means very different things to different people
SA’s will require a strong business involvement & proposal for solutions
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WBCSD Sectoral Approach TF
Forest Products Industry Buildings Cement Mobility Electricity Utilities Maritime
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Aluminum Steel GeSI Chemicals Oil & Gas
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A 3rd Industrial Revolution
Clean, Lean & Mean
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Going Forward
“Business cannot succeed in a society that fails.”
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